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Belmont Quality Foods Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Belmont Quality Foods |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow ground with a fine guilloche underprint and ornate letterpress border. A circular vignette at left bears scales of justice; a central oval vignette shows a standing classical figure. Corner medallions carry the denomination numeral '1c' in each quadrant. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted yellow stock with an all-over geometric trellis pattern formed by the paper's own texture, giving a basket-weave appearance across the entire surface. |
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A trade token note issued by a Chicago grocer or food wholesaler, almost certainly produced by one of the city's many small commercial printers active in the mid-twentieth century. These private scrip pieces circulated as store credit or employee benefit instruments — common in the Chicago retail food trade before standardized payroll and consumer credit displaced them entirely. Belmont Quality Foods has left no significant archival trace, which suggests a neighborhood-scale operation rather than a regional chain.