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1 Cent - Hy-Vee
| Issuer | Hy-Vee Food Stores |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | HY-VEE FOOD STAMP DUE BILL 1 CENT 202-72-A REDEEMABLE ONLY IN ELIGIBLE FOOD UNDER FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PLAN AT HY-VEE FOOD STORES ONLY |
| Reverse description | Yellow paper with the same fine basket-weave underprint as the obverse, otherwise unprinted. A handwritten "Void" cancellation appears in red ink at the centre. |
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Hy-Vee Food Stores, the employee-owned Midwestern supermarket chain founded in 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa, issued scrip coupons of this kind primarily for use within their cafeteria and in-store food service operations — a practical internal currency that bypassed the need for small-change handling at point of sale. The employee-ownership structure made in-house scrip administratively straightforward in ways it would not be for a publicly traded retailer.
Collector interest in grocery and retail scrip from American regional chains has grown steadily since the 1990s, but documentation on specific Hy-Vee issues remains thin.