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1 Cent - Warehouse Economy Store Youngstown, Ohio
| Issuer | Warehouse Economy Store |
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| Year | 1972-1975 |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper with a scalloped border in blue. The heading "FOOD STAMP CREDIT" appears across the top in bold blue lettering, with large denomination numerals "1¢" flanking the centred issuer name in three lines. A redemption clause and store restriction legend appear across the lower portion, with a serial number printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink paper, unprinted save for a faint show-through of the obverse design and a handwritten pencil notation reading "Youngstown, OH 3" placed diagonally near the lower centre. |
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Warehouse Economy Store scrip from Youngstown, Ohio occupies a genuinely obscure corner of American retail trade currency. These small-denomination paper issues were used internally — almost certainly as change-making instruments or promotional coupons redeemable in-store — during a period when regional discount retailers were competing aggressively against early big-box expansion in the industrial Midwest.
Youngstown's economy was still coal and steel in the early 1970s, just ahead of the catastrophic mill closures that would define the city by decade's end. This piece predates that collapse by a few years.