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1 Cent - Two Guys
| Issuer | Two Guys |
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| Year | |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Light green paper with red cross-hatched vertical panels at left and right, and a red guilloche band across the top and bottom borders. The issuer name appears in blue script at each corner within ruled cartouches. Denomination ONE CENT printed in large red letterpress type at centre, with remaining text in blue. |
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| Reverse description | Light green paper with the same border scheme as the obverse: red cross-hatched vertical panels flanking a central text field, with blue wavy outer border and issuer cartouches at each corner. Liability disclaimer text in blue letterpress occupies the central panel, with the Two Guys name in blue cursive script below. |
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Two Guys was a discount department store chain that operated across the northeastern United States from the late 1950s through 1982. Like several large retailers of that period, it issued its own scrip for use in promotional schemes — typically as change tokens or spendable certificates redeemable only within the store, a tactic designed to keep money circulating back through the registers rather than out the door.
These pieces occupy an odd corner of notaphily: technically private commercial scrip, not legal tender, yet printed in note format and collected alongside Depression-era merchant currency and coal company scrip.