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1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Washington D.C.
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Incorporated |
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| Year | 1964-1970 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pale green credit slip printed in black on a fine basket-weave guilloche underprint. The central text area carries the issuing authority legend in bold letterpress, with a large ghost numeral '1c' watermark-style underprint at centre. The Safeway corporate 'S' logo medallion appears in each of the four corners, and a serial number is printed vertically along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted pale green reverse, exhibiting the same fine basket-weave guilloche texture visible on the obverse, with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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Safeway issued these fractional paper coupons during the period when several U.S. states — including Washington — imposed odd-cent sales tax obligations that made exact-change transactions genuinely difficult at checkout. Rather than absorb the rounding loss or force customers to carry pennies, the company circulated its own paper scrip redeemable in-store. The arrangement was entirely legal under state provisions that tolerated private fractional currency for retail sales tax purposes.
Safeway was not alone in this practice, but as one of the largest grocery chains in the country at the time, it issued these in significant volume across multiple markets.