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1 Cent - Safeway Stores
| Issuer | Safeway Stores |
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| Year | |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE CENT 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT Redeemable Only By Participant of U.S. Govt. Food Stamp Program for Food Items on Authorized List ... at any— SAFEWAY STORES APPROVED BY U.S.D.A. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, showing the plain pink paper stock with faint show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper substrate. |
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Safeway Stores issued small-denomination paper scrip primarily during the 1930s, when coin shortages and the practical difficulties of making exact change at high-volume grocery checkouts made fractional currency a genuine operational problem. This was not unique to Safeway — dozens of American retailers issued their own paper fractional notes during the Depression years — but Safeway's chain-wide distribution gave their scrip broader circulation than most local competitors could achieve.
Redeemable only at issuing locations, these pieces occupied a legal grey zone that federal authorities periodically scrutinized but never decisively moved against during the period.