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1 Cent - Larry's Finer Foods Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Larry's Finer Foods |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = ZAR 0.16 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper voucher with decorative guilloche border and corner medallions bearing '1c'. A vignette at lower left shows scales of justice within a circular frame; to its right, a small Statue of Liberty underprint vignette. The legend 'FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP' appears at top in bold letterpress, with issuer name and address in the centre. |
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| Protection type | Security paper |
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Larry's Finer Foods was a Chicago grocery operation that issued paper scrip as a customer loyalty or change-making mechanism — a practice that survived well into the mid-twentieth century among independent American retailers who wanted to reduce coin handling or incentivize return visits. Store scrip of this type occupied a legal grey area; it was tolerated provided it remained redeemable only at the issuing merchant and was not marketed as a general-purpose currency substitute.
The use of security paper on a one-cent denomination is the genuinely curious detail here — an anti-counterfeiting measure on a note worth a penny.