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1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Inc. El Paso, Texas
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Inc. - El Paso Division |
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| Year | 1960-1970 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP 1 ONE CENT Redeemable Only in eligible foods at: SAFEWAY STORES, INC. El Paso Division |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain light green paper with no printed design or lettering. Show-through of the obverse text is faintly visible. A handwritten notation appears in the lower right corner. |
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Safeway issued divisional scrip — sometimes called "due bills" or "trade checks" — through individual regional divisions during the mid-twentieth century, primarily to handle small-change transactions at the register without depleting coin supplies. The El Paso Division operated stores across west Texas and southern New Mexico, and these low-denomination pieces circulated almost exclusively within specific store locations rather than across the full divisional network.
Sub-cent and one-cent scrip of this type was rarely redeemed in bulk, which means survival rates are genuinely unpredictable — some denominations are common, others nearly untraceable.