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1 Cent Louisiana State Penitentiary
| Issuer | Louisiana State Penitentiary Commissary |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = ZAR 0.16 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper commissary chit with blue letterpress text. Left panel carries three-line inscription above a horizontal rule, with a caution notice at lower left and a red serial number. Right panel enclosed in a decorative border bears the numeral '1' above the denomination in bold capitals. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow reverse showing a faint letterpress ghost impression of the obverse text, with a rectangular border at left enclosing a bleed-through of the denomination numeral. No additional design elements are present. |
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Louisiana State Penitentiary — Angola — operated its own internal scrip system to allow inmates to purchase goods at the commissary without handling U.S. currency, which was prohibited inside the facility. These small-denomination notes functioned as a closed monetary system, redeemable only within the prison's own retail operation and worthless outside the wire.
The 1 Cent denomination is the lowest in the Angola scrip series and saw the hardest use — pocket-worn examples are the norm.