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1 Cent - Jet Community Market Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Jet Community Market |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Reverse lettering | HAMMERMILL SENTRY |
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| Protection description | Hammermill Sentry security paper with an overall basket-weave pattern underprint visible on the reverse. |
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Jet Community Market was a Black-owned grocery chain founded by John H. Johnson — the same Johnson who built the Johnson Publishing empire behind Jet and Ebony magazines. The store-scrip tokens issued in this paper format were part of a broader mid-century experiment in community economic self-sufficiency on Chicago's South Side, where redlining and discriminatory lending had starved the neighborhood of mainstream commercial infrastructure.
Hammermill Sentry was a commercially available security paper, not a bespoke banknote stock — its use here reflects the practical budget of a retail issuer rather than a formal monetary authority.