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1 Cent - L.D.C. Foods & Liquor Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | L.D.C. Foods & Liquor |
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| Value | 1 Cent (0.01 USD) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with an ornate guilloche border and corner medallions bearing the denomination "1c". A circular vignette at left contains scales of justice; at centre, an oval underprint shows the Statue of Liberty with a bell vignette to its right. Denomination "ONE CENT" appears at right in bold letterpress, with a bottom panel inscribed "ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP". |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a fine geometric grid underprint pattern across the entire surface. No printed text or vignettes are present. |
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A Depression-era or mid-century merchant scrip token note — the kind issued by small Chicago grocers and liquor retailers to make change when coin shortages made small transactions awkward. L.D.C. Foods & Liquor has left no substantial paper trail beyond the scrip itself, which is not unusual; most such issuers operated at the neighborhood level and kept no records that survived into archive collections.
The note's survival at all is the mildly interesting part. Most merchant scrip was redeemed and discarded within days of issue.