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1 Cent - Webb's City St Petersburg, Florida
| Issuer | Webb's City Incorporated |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | WEBB'S TRADE CERTIFICATE REDEEMABLE ONLY IN ELIGIBLE FOOD UNDER FOOD STAMP PLAN This Certificate Is good for merchandise in the Meat, Grocery & Produce Departments only. THIS IS CERTIFICATE No. GS St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 By ................ Secretary – Treasurer |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with an overall repeating basket-weave geometric underprint in a lighter yellow tone; no printed text or vignette present. |
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Webb's City billed itself as "the world's most unusual drugstore" — a sprawling retail complex in downtown St. Petersburg that by mid-century had grown to occupy an entire city block with dozens of departments under one roof. James Earl Webb issued scrip like this as an in-store currency, redeemable only within the complex, a practice that kept customer spending circulating internally and reinforced the operation's near-carnival atmosphere.
The dimensions are unusually generous for a 1-cent denomination — nearly the length of a U.S. dollar bill but considerably taller, which made Webb's scrip immediately distinguishable from federal currency and harder to spend elsewhere by accident.