1 Cent - Veterans Canteen Service

The Veterans Canteen Service was established by Congress in 1946 to provide low-cost goods and services to veterans receiving care at VA facilities. These paper scrip tokens — fractions of a dollar, non-negotiable outside the canteen system — were a practical solution to the problem of hospitalized veterans needing small purchasing power without handling regular currency in a controlled ward environment.

The TC# reference places this in the Trade Check cataloguing system. At 51 × 27 mm, the format is closer to a ticket stub than a banknote, which is precisely what it functioned as.