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Super Jet Food & Liquor Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Super Jet Food & Liquor, Inc. |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with a fine basket-weave underprint and ornate guilloche border. At centre, a small oval vignette of Liberty flanked by a scales-of-justice roundel at left; denomination "ONE CENT" at right. Inscriptions identify the issuer at 4326 South State St., Chicago, Illinois, with "1C" counters in each corner. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a fine basket-weave underprint across the entire surface; no printed design or lettering. |
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A merchant scrip or credit token issued by a Chicago grocery and liquor retailer — the kind of instrument that circulated hyper-locally, often as change substitutes or in-store credit during periods when small-denomination coins were either scarce or simply inconvenient to handle. Illinois saw a long tradition of this practice, particularly among independent neighborhood food and liquor stores operating on tight margins and loyal repeat customer bases.
No printer credit is recorded, which is typical for small-run commercial scrip of this type — likely a local job printer. Survival rate for ephemera at this scale is low.