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White ground coupon printed in black and red. The bold heading FOOD COUPON CREDIT appears at the top in black letterpress, flanked at upper right by a circular vignette enclosing the denomination 1¢ in red. Three additional circular denomination roundels — each bearing 1¢ or ¢ in red — are placed at the lower corners and centre. The body text, set in a proportional serif typeface, states the redemption condition in accordance with the Federal Food Stamp Program, while the issuer names THOROFARE MARKETS, INC. and PENNYFARE DIVISION OF THOROFARE MARKETS, INC. appear in red small-capitals at the lower centre. |
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FOOD COUPON CREDIT 1¢ Acceptable at face value on future food purchases—in accordance with the Federal Food Stamp Program. 1¢ THOROFARE MARKETS, INC. OR PENNYFARE DIVISION OF THOROFARE MARKETS, INC. 1¢ |
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Thorofare Markets was a supermarket chain based in Ohio that operated primarily through the 1950s and 1960s. The "Pennyfare" division name suggests this cent-denomination piece was part of a promotional scrip or trading stamp redemption program — a common retail tactic of that period, when chains competed aggressively on loyalty incentives rather than price alone. Whether it circulated within the stores as change scrip or functioned purely as a redemption token against future purchases is not definitively documented.
Private merchant scrip at fractional denominations is poorly catalogued generally, and Thorofare issues are no exception.