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1 Cent Island Creek Stores Company
| Issuer | Island Creek Stores Company |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1906-1916) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress print on yellow paper. The voucher is divided into two panels: the larger left panel carries the issuer name and redemption clause in bold serif type, with a book number in red ink below, and a warning strip at the foot; the right panel contains the bold numeral "1" within a bordered cartouche above the word "CENT". |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted yellow paper reverse showing a faint bleed-through impression of the obverse text and panel layout, with no intentional design elements. |
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Company store scrip from the coal mining regions of Appalachia operated on a closed economic loop by design — workers were paid in scrip redeemable only at the company's own store, keeping wages circulating back to the operator. Island Creek Coal Company, founded in 1902 in Logan County, West Virginia, ran one of the larger such systems in the region. This 1 cent denomination is the smallest practical unit, issued to prevent rounding losses on small purchases from benefiting the worker rather than the company.
Yellow paper was a common color-coding convention to distinguish denominations within scrip series, not a decorative choice.