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1 Cent - Save-Way Foods Youngstown, Ohio & St Louis, Missouri
| Issuer | Save-Way Foods |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper with blue letterpress printing throughout. A scalloped border frames the face; the issuer name appears in an oval cartouche at centre flanked by large denomination numerals '1¢' at left and right. Redemption conditions are set in three lines of uppercase text at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper, entirely unprinted save for a faint ghost impression of the obverse design visible through the stock. A serial number is printed vertically along the right margin. |
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Save-Way Foods operated a small chain of discount grocery stores across the Ohio-Missouri corridor in the mid-twentieth century, and this cent-denominated token note belongs to a category of private scrip issued by retailers to encourage customer loyalty and smooth small-change transactions — a persistent problem in American commerce long after the official coinage shortage of the early 1960s. Dual-city overprints of this kind suggest a shared printing run across multiple store locations, with the issuing geography stamped or pre-printed to distinguish regional inventories.
Documentation on Save-Way Foods scrip is thin. The Youngstown-St. Louis combination is the detail worth noting.