1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Lewistown, Montana

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.