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1 Cent - Sunshine Foods Chicago, Illinois
| Issuer | Sunshine Foods |
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| Size | 90 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1C 1C FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP Redeemable Only in Eligible Foods at SUNSHINE FOODS 6810 S. HALSTED ST. Chicago, ILL. ONE CENT Not Redeemable in U.S. Currency ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1C 1C |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with an overall fine crosshatch underprint pattern visible throughout, printed on the same yellow stock as the obverse. No additional legends or vignettes are present. |
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Sunshine Foods was a Chicago-based grocery chain that issued paper scrip as a customer loyalty or trade token instrument — a practice common among American regional retailers through much of the mid-twentieth century, when small-denomination scrip helped keep change circulating efficiently at the register without relying on the chronic coin shortages that periodically plagued retail. These pieces occupied a grey legal area: technically redeemable only at the issuing store, which kept them outside federal currency regulations.
Documentation on Sunshine Foods' scrip program is thin. The printer is unrecorded in standard merchant scrip references.