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1 Cent - Bi-Rite Certified Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Bi-Rite Certified, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FOOD STAMP CREDIT ONLY 1¢ BI-RITE CERTIFIED 5915 So. Mich. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank white paper, with faint bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text visible through the thin stock. |
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Bi-Rite was a Midwest grocery chain that issued its own scrip during the early 1930s Depression-era coin shortage, when small retailers across the United States increasingly turned to privately printed fractional notes to make change rather than lose sales over pennies they couldn't return. This 1-cent denomination is about as small as private scrip gets — the physical size of the note reflects that it was meant to substitute for a single copper coin, nothing more.