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1 Cent - Met Food Stores New York
| Issuer | Met Food Stores |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT REDEEMABLE FOR CASH 1 MET 1 FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP 1¢ SLS GOOD ONLY IN ELIGIBLE FOODS AT THE MET STORE WHERE ISSUED |
| Reverse description | Blank white paper with no printed design or text. |
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Met Food Stores was a regional supermarket cooperative operating primarily in the New York metropolitan area. This cent denomination scrip belongs to a category of merchant-issued paper common among American grocery chains during the mid-twentieth century — used as change tokens or promotional currency when coin shortages or register efficiency made small-denomination metal impractical. The issuer and face value together suggest this circulated at checkout, not as a collector's piece.
No federal prohibition applied to this type of scrip provided it didn't explicitly imitate U.S. coinage or currency — a legal distinction the grocery industry navigated carefully.