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1 Cent - Safeway Stores San Francisco, California
| Issuer | Safeway Stores |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE CENT 1¢ 1¢ FOOD STAMP CREDIT Redeemable Only By Participant of U.S. Govt. Food Stamp Program for Food Items on Authorized List... at any -- SAFEWAY STORES IN COUNTIES PARTICIPATING IN THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM |
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| Reverse lettering | VOID |
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Safeway issued small-denomination paper scrip primarily during the 1930s, when coin shortages and Depression-era cash-flow pressures pushed many large retailers into producing their own fractional currency. These tokens of obligation were redeemable only at the issuing store, which kept the money — such as it was — cycling within the company's own tills. The San Francisco attribution ties the note to the chain's original Pacific Coast stronghold, where Safeway had its deepest early penetration before national expansion.