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1 Cent - South Side Market Pueblo, Colorado
| Issuer | South Side Market, Pueblo, Colorado |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain tan card stock printed in black letterpress. The face is divided into a border grid with denomination numerals in each corner, lateral side-panels reading "Food Stamp Program / Certificate of Credit" in vertical orientation, and a central panel bearing the store's rubber stamp impression in violet ink. The upper and lower registers carry the redemption conditions in bold sans-serif type. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1₵ 1₵ CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT - REDEEMABLE FOR AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE ONLY AT INDICATED STORE Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT Food Stamp Program CERTIFICATE OF CREDIT # 49570 SOUTH SIDE MARKET 1300 E. EVANS PUEBLO, COLO. Store Stamp GOOD FOR 1₵ IN AUTHORIZED MERCHANDISE UNDER U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM ONLY 1₵ 1₵ |
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Merchant scrip from Pueblo, Colorado occupies a narrow and often overlooked corner of American fiscal history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, retail establishments across the Rocky Mountain West routinely issued their own fractional currency to compensate for chronic shortages of small-denomination federal coinage — a problem that plagued inland commercial centers far from Federal Reserve distribution points.
The South Side Market's card scrip at this size runs noticeably larger than most contemporary merchant tokens, which were typically struck in metal. Card issues this dimensions are more fragile and survival rates are correspondingly low.