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1 Cent - Vons Market Los Angeles, California
| Issuer | Vons Market |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 USD = EUR 0.0085 |
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| Obverse description | Teal and cream coupon printed on plain paper with a guilloche lattice underprint and ornate border. The Vons logotype in a dark cartouche appears upper left, with the denomination "ONE CENT" in large shadowed letterpress text at centre. A decorative guilloche vignette at right bears the numeral "1¢". |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted white paper reverse with no design elements, bearing only handwritten collector notations in pencil. |
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Vons Market issued small-denomination paper scrip — including this 1-cent piece — as a practical workaround for the chronic coin shortage that periodically plagued American retail in the mid-twentieth century. Grocery chains in California were among the most active private scrip issuers, redeeming the notes in-store rather than making change in coin.
Acceptance was entirely at the issuer's discretion, with no regulatory backing. That informality is precisely why so few examples survive in any condition.