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1 Cent - Larry's Certified Finer Foods Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Larry's Certified Finer Foods |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow coupon printed in black with a guilloche-style border and numeral "1" medallions at each corner. A central vignette shows a heraldic shield with vertical stripes and five stars, flanked by laurel branches. Store name, address, telephone number, and denomination appear in bold letterpress text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 1 To Be Used as Credit Only at LARRY'S CERTIFIED FINER FOODS 2455 W. Madison NO. IL 2-3910 OFFICIAL FOOD COUPON ONE CENT 1 ONE CENT 1 |
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Larry's Certified Finer Foods issued this 1 cent paper scrip as a retail trade token — part of a broader American tradition of proprietary store currency used to manage small-change transactions, encourage repeat custom, and reduce dependence on low-denomination federal coinage. Hammermill, better known as a paper manufacturer than a printer, likely supplied the substrate and handled production through their commercial division, which served regional and small-run clients through much of the mid-twentieth century.
No federal law prohibited private scrip of this type, provided it did not imitate U.S. coinage — a distinction retailers navigated carefully.