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25 Cents - Dominick's Finer Foods
| Issuer | Dominick's Finer Foods |
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| Size | 67 x 52 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red slip printed in black on a red ground carrying an all-over letterpress underprint of the Dominick's name in outline script. The denomination numeral "25" is set in large bold crosshatched type at centre, flanked by the spelled-out words "TWENTY FIVE" and "CENTS". The Dominick's Finer Foods logo vignette appears at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | VOID |
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Dominick's Finer Foods was a Chicago-area supermarket chain founded in 1918 that grew to become one of the dominant grocery retailers in the Midwest before Safeway acquired it in 1998. Scrip of this kind — fractional paper issued by private retailers — was a common promotional and change-making tool in mid-twentieth-century American retail, particularly before coin shortages normalized the practice and before state regulations gradually pushed it out.
Retailer-issued fractional notes occupy an awkward space in collecting: neither fully exonumia nor conventional notaphily, they are catalogued inconsistently and frequently surface without provenance.