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1 Cent - Lawndale Stop-Shop Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Lawndale Stop-Shop |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow credit slip printed in dark olive-brown on a yellow ground with a fine crosshatch underprint. An ornate guilloche border frames the face; four corner roundels each bear the denomination '1c'. At centre-left a circular vignette shows a balance scale, and to its right a second oval vignette depicts a standing female figure. The issuer name and address appear in bold letterpress at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow reverse printed with an overall fine crosshatch or linen-texture underprint pattern in a slightly darker yellow tone, with no additional vignettes or inscriptions. |
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Lawndale Stop-Shop was a Chicago grocery chain operating in the North Lawndale neighborhood, a predominantly Black community on the city's West Side. Trade tokens and paper scrip issued by local retailers were common instruments in mid-twentieth century American urban retail — effectively forcing repeat custom by keeping small change circulating within a single store or chain rather than bleeding out to competitors.
Paper scrip at this denomination was cheaper to produce than metal tokens and easier to issue in volume. Whether this piece dates to the postwar boom years or the neighborhood's sharper economic decline after the 1968 riots is not established from the note alone.