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1 Cent - Giant Eagle Market Non-Local, Pennsylvania
| Issuer | Giant Eagle Market |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | UNITED STATES FOOD PLAN ONE CENT COUPON THIS COUPON WILL BE REDEEMED FOR FOOD ACCORDING TO U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP REGULATIONS ONE CENT Redeemable at any GIANT EAGLE MARKET |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely plain, printed on yellow stock with no design elements, text, or ornamentation; faint bleed-through of the obverse impression is visible. |
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Giant Eagle's non-local trade tokens and scrip issues reflect a mid-twentieth century regional grocery practice — stores in Pennsylvania and Ohio issued fractional paper cents to avoid making change in coin during periods when small denomination currency was either scarce or simply inconvenient at the register. The "non-local" designation on this piece indicates it was redeemable across the chain rather than restricted to a single store location, a distinction that mattered in communities where multiple Giant Eagle branches competed with independent grocers.
Paper cent scrip of this type rarely survived beyond a single transaction.