1 Cent - Jet Community Market Chicago, Illinois

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.