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1 Cent - Jewel Tea Co., Inc. Melrose Park, Illinois
| Issuer | Jewel Tea Co., Inc. |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue coupon with a repeating "Jewel Tea Co., Inc." underprint across the entire face. Upper left bears oval Jewel-Osco and Turn-Style logotypes; upper right carries the issuer name in script and block lettering with address. Centre left reads "FOOD COUPON CREDIT" in bold; the denomination "1¢" appears within a decorative rosette, with "ONE CENT" to its right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is blank white paper with no printed design or lettering, showing only faint bleed-through of the obverse underprint. |
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Jewel Tea operated a door-to-door delivery model across the American Midwest for much of the twentieth century, and its corporate scrip was a practical tool for managing small-denomination transactions between route salesmen and household customers. These internal trade tokens — whether paper or otherwise — kept change calculations simple on the doorstep and subtly encouraged redemption back through Jewel Tea's own product lines rather than through cash refunds.
Whether this specific cent denomination was issued pre- or post-war matters for dating, as Jewel Tea's operations and branding shifted considerably after the company merged with American Stores in 1984.