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1 Cent - Safeway Stores Southern California
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Southern California Division |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DIVISION ONE CENT 1c 1c FOOD STAMP CREDIT Redeemable Only By Participant of U.S. Govt. Food Stamp Program for Food Items on Authorized List … at any-- SAFEWAY STORES COUNTIES PARTICIPATING IN FOOD STAMP PROGRAM |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed on the same light green paper stock, entirely unprinted and devoid of any design, lettering, or underprint. |
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Safeway issued fractional paper scrip through its regional divisions during the early 1930s as a direct response to the acute coin shortage that accompanied the Depression-era banking collapses. The Southern California Division operated its own redemption system independently of the national chain, which is why divisional attribution matters — scrip from different Safeway regions was not interchangeable at the register.
These small-denomination pieces circulated almost entirely within the store ecosystem and were redeemed aggressively, making intact surviving examples genuinely uncommon.