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1 Cent - Shrago's Market North Omaha, Nebraska
| Issuer | Shrago's Market |
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| Year | 1976 BC |
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| Size | 140 x 54 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | DUE BILL FOOD STAMP CREDIT ONLY FOR THE AMOUNT OF... 1C REDEEMABLE AT SHRAGO'S MARKET NO. 1585 |
| Reverse description | Plain grey paper with the same woven basket-weave underprint as the obverse. The reverse is otherwise unprinted, bearing only handwritten ink annotations in the center. |
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Shrago's Market was a neighborhood grocery in North Omaha, a predominantly Black community that faced chronic underservice from mainstream retail through much of the twentieth century. Local scrip of this kind — issued by individual merchants in the 1970s — functioned as a loyalty and change-making tool, keeping small transactions within the store's own economy. The "BC" dating suffix here almost certainly denotes an internal business code rather than any calendar system.
North Omaha merchant scrip from this period is poorly documented and survives in very small quantities.