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10 Cent - Lucky Stores Incorporated California
| Issuer | Lucky Stores Incorporated |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Lucky Stores INC. FOOD COUPON CHANGE Non-transferable GOOD ONLY AT LUCKY STORES AUTHORIZED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PROGRAM |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow-orange reverse with faint ghost impression of the obverse design visible through the thin paper stock, with no distinct printed design elements on this side. |
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Lucky Stores Incorporated operated a chain of supermarkets across California, and like several large American retailers in the mid-twentieth century, issued paper scrip for internal purposes — most likely as change tokens or employee-related credit within store operations. The exact issuance period for this denomination is not firmly documented in standard scrip references, which is itself telling: much of this material was never meant to outlast a single transaction.
Retail scrip of this type rarely survived in quantity. Cashiers discarded it, customers spent it immediately, and the issuing companies had no reason to preserve records.