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1 Cent - Safeway Stores Butte, Montana
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Butte Division |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper voucher with an ornate letterpress-printed border of interlocking foliate and oval guilloche elements. Denomination numeral "1c" appears in circular vignettes at left and right, flanking the central bold-type legend; the Safeway "S" logo roundels appear at lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, displaying only the plain yellow paper stock with a faint basket-weave texture underprint visible across the entire surface. |
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Safeway operated a scrip program through several of its divisional offices during the 1930s Depression years, when coin shortages and cash-flow pressures pushed retailers — particularly in mining and industrial towns — toward issuing their own fractional currency. Butte was a copper town, and its economy moved in violent cycles tied to metal prices. Small-denomination scrip like this kept transactions running inside the store ecosystem without draining the till of coin.
These divisional issues were redeemable only within the issuing Safeway division, not company-wide. That restriction makes attribution to the Butte Division specifically meaningful — it narrows both the issuing authority and the redemption geography considerably.