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1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Lewistown, Montana
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Incorporated |
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| Year | 1964-1970 |
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| Size | 106 × 61 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | HAMMERMILL SENTRY SAFETY |
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| Protection type | Safety paper |
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Safeway's internal scrip program was a response to a persistent operational headache: making change for promotional trading stamp transactions without draining branch tills of low-denomination coin. These Lewistown, Montana issues were locally redeemable only, meaning a note printed for this store had no value at another Safeway outlet — a deliberate design to prevent float abuse across the chain's network.
Hammermill Sentry paper was the commercial standard for this kind of low-stakes security printing in the 1960s, used by manufacturers specifically because its chemical-reactive fibers frustrated photocopying on early Xerox machines.