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50 Cents - State Food Stores Moundsville, West Virginia
| Issuer | State Food Stores, Moundsville, West Virginia |
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| Size | 52 x 23 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STATE FOOD STORES GOOD FOR FACE VALUE IF NOT DETACHED FROM COVER NOT TRANSFERABLE 50 CENTS |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain cream card with a faint rectangular blind-border impression and a perforated detachment edge along the lower margin, otherwise unprinted. |
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Company scrip issued by a retail grocery operation in Moundsville, Marshall County — coal and industrial country where wage payment in store credit was common enough through the mid-twentieth century that such tokens carried real purchasing weight. Whether this piece was issued to employees or functioned as change scrip for customers is not always clear with West Virginia grocery scrip, and issuance records for State Food Stores have not survived in any known public archive.
The card format at this size was typical of small-denomination mercantile scrip and wore badly in trouser pockets.