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1 Cent - Mini-Mart Casper, Wyoming
| Issuer | Mini-Mart (Casper, Wyoming) |
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| Value | 1 Cent |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground bearing a central circular vignette formed by a double-ring border, with the legend FOOD STAMP arching along the upper arc and CREDIT TOKEN along the lower arc in hand-lettered style. Within the circle, typewritten text states the face value of $0.01 and the redemption condition, flanked left and right by two asterisk ornaments. The issuer name MINI-MART is printed vertically in bold along both the left and right margins of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Largely blank white ground showing a ghost impression of the obverse circular vignette printed through from the face, with the lettering appearing in mirror image. A handwritten signature appears in ink at the lower right corner. |
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Mini-Mart was a regional convenience store chain that issued its own scrip — almost certainly as promotional currency or as a hedge against small-denomination coin shortages that plagued many small retailers during periods of tight coin circulation in the mid-twentieth century United States. Local merchant scrip of this type was never federally regulated, and issuers had near-total latitude over design, denomination, and redemption terms.
Casper-printed merchant scrip in this format is genuinely uncommon in collector holdings — most was redeemed, discarded, or simply lost to time. The Wyoming provenance narrows the issuing window considerably; Mini-Mart's Casper operations are not well documented outside local commercial records.