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1 Cent - Kash N' Karry Tampa, Florida
| Issuer | Kash N' Karry Food Stores |
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| Year | 1975-1978 |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with a repeated underprint of the Kash N' Karry logo in blue. A blue border with coil-spring and leaf ornaments frames the note. The Kash N' Karry oval trade logo appears at upper right, with the denomination ONE 1 CENT printed in bold blue letterpress at center. Header reads KASH N' KARRY FOOD STAMP and footer reads CREDIT SLIP. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a faint bleed-through impression of the obverse design visible in mirror image. No printed design on this side. A handwritten notation appears at lower right. |
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Kash N' Karry was a Florida supermarket chain that issued small-denomination paper scrip during the mid-1970s as a workaround for the chronic coin shortage that intermittently plagued American retail through that decade. Rather than rounding transactions up or leaving customers short, some regional grocers issued proprietary fractional currency redeemable only at their own registers — a practice with roots going back to Civil War-era store tokens and Depression-era merchant scrip.
Redeemable in-store only, these notes had no incentive to leave circulation, which is precisely why intact surviving examples are harder to find than their mundane origins might suggest.