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1 Cent - Irv's Food Mart Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Irv's Food Mart |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with fine basketweave underprint. Ornate guilloche border with '1c' corner medallions. Central vignette of a scales of justice at left and a Liberty-type figure at right, with the store name and address in bold letterpress. Denomination 'ONE CENT' at lower right; 'ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP' in a ruled panel at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at IRV'S FOOD MART 1374 EAST 70TH Chicago, Illinois ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
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Merchant scrip from American grocery and convenience retailers was overwhelmingly produced by a small cluster of Chicago-area trade printers who specialized in this niche — firms like Western Printing or local job shops that turned around short runs cheaply. A 1-cent denomination is notably low; most food store scrip was issued in 5- or 10-cent increments to cover fractional change on promotional offers or trading stamp redemptions. One-cent pieces suggest either a very specific pricing scheme or a coupon-adjacent use rather than true circulating scrip.
No issuance date survives in the catalog record, which is typical for this class of ephemera — these were printed to order with no regulatory requirement for dating.