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1 Cent - Pay & Walk Foods Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Pay and Walk Foods, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Size | 93 x 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with black letterpress print throughout. A decorative guilloche border frames the face; four corner medallions each carry the denomination '1c'. At centre-left, a circular vignette shows scales of justice; to its right, an oval vignette of the Statue of Liberty with Liberty Bell underprint at right. The issuer name and address appear in bold sans-serif type above the denomination panel. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a faint all-over geometric lattice underprint in a slightly deeper yellow tone; no printed text or vignette present. |
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Pay & Walk Foods was one of several Chicago-area grocery chains that issued paper scrip in small denominations during the mid-twentieth century, primarily to handle fractional change without relying on coinage. These trade tokens and paper equivalents were common in the Midwest grocery sector, particularly among independent and regional chains operating on thin margins where coin shortages — real or manufactured — provided a convenient justification for in-store currency.
The issuer does not appear in major Illinois corporate directories beyond a narrow regional window, suggesting a short-lived operation or a single-location business.