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1 Cent - Hermanos Food Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Hermanos Food |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with an ornate guilloche border and corner medallions bearing the denomination '1c'. A circular vignette at left shows a scales-of-justice motif, while a central oval underprint carries a Statue of Liberty figure. The denomination 'ONE CENT' appears at right in bold letterpress, with the issuer name and address in the centre field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a fine repetitive geometric underprint pattern across the entire surface, producing a textile-like lattice effect. No text or vignette is present. |
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Hermanos Food was a small grocery chain serving Chicago's Mexican immigrant communities, primarily on the city's Near West Side and Pilsen neighborhoods, during the mid-twentieth century. Token currency of this kind — fractional paper scrip in cent denominations — was issued by ethnic grocers to handle small transactions where coin change was either scarce or operationally inconvenient, and to retain customer spending within the store.
Scrip of this type rarely survived in quantity; it was spent, lost, or discarded rather than saved.