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1 Cent - Mini-Mart Casper, Wyoming
| Issuer | Mini-Mart (Casper, Wyoming) |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | MINI-MART FOOD STAMP GOOD FOR: $.01 Redeemable only in ELIGIBLE FOODS AT: MINI-MART ** CREDIT TOKEN MINI-MART |
| Reverse description | Largely blank white ground showing a ghost impression of the obverse circular vignette printed through from the face, with the lettering appearing in mirror image. A handwritten signature appears in ink at the lower right corner. |
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Mini-Mart was a regional convenience store chain that issued its own scrip — almost certainly as promotional currency or as a hedge against small-denomination coin shortages that plagued many small retailers during periods of tight coin circulation in the mid-twentieth century United States. Local merchant scrip of this type was never federally regulated, and issuers had near-total latitude over design, denomination, and redemption terms.
Casper-printed merchant scrip in this format is genuinely uncommon in collector holdings — most was redeemed, discarded, or simply lost to time. The Wyoming provenance narrows the issuing window considerably; Mini-Mart's Casper operations are not well documented outside local commercial records.