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1 Cent - E.Z Save Temple, Arizona
| Issuer | E.Z Save |
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| Size | 108 x 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow underprint on white paper, with a fine serrated border running the full perimeter. Four rounded corner cartouches each bear the denomination numeral '1c' in yellow. A central white panel carries the bold letterpress legends 'FOOD STAMP / CREDIT SLIP' above a double rule, with the E.Z Save oval logo vignette below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1c 1c FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable ONLY in eligible foods at: 1c 1c |
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Trade tokens and scrip issued by small American retailers are common enough, but paper cent-denominated scrip is notably rarer than its coin-form counterparts — producing fractional paper at this scale was rarely economical unless a business expected high enough volume to justify the print run. E.Z Save was a discount grocery chain operating in Arizona during the 1960s and 1970s, and cent scrip of this type was typically used to avoid making change in cash, keeping transactions moving at the register.
Temple is a small community within the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. Whether this scrip circulated widely or was quickly discontinued is unknown — survival rates for low-denomination retail paper scrip are poor, as most was redeemed quickly or simply discarded.