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1 Cent - Standard Food Stores Indianapolis, Indiana
| Issuer | National Tea Co., Standard Grocery Division |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = RON 0.045 |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper voucher with a scalloped and serrated border running the full perimeter. A dark banner at top carries the title in white letterpress. The numeral "1" is printed centrally in large bold type, flanked by two diamond-shaped Standard Food Stores trade logos containing stars. Issuer name in italic script appears at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow reverse showing bleed-through impression of the obverse design in mirror image, with a handwritten notation in ink across the lower portion. No printed design elements are present on this side. |
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National Tea Co. acquired Standard Grocery and operated it as a regional division under the Standard Food Stores banner primarily across the Midwest. These cents-denomination paper scrip pieces functioned as change tokens — issued to avoid the perpetual shortage of small coins at the register, a persistent retail problem through much of the mid-twentieth century. Grocery chains across the US experimented with paper fractional currency of this kind; few bothered to preserve it.
Locally printed, almost certainly in small runs for individual store use. Survival rate is low precisely because nobody thought to save a one-cent chit.