Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Dollar Island Creek Stores Company
| Issuer | Island Creek Stores Company |
|---|---|
| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Vouchers |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Dark green letterpress-printed voucher ticket. The left portion carries the issuer name and redemption clause in a bordered panel, with a red-printed book number and serial in the lower left. A separate right-hand panel bears the numeral '1' above the word 'DOLLAR' within a decorative border. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain light green paper, completely unprinted, with a perforated edge along the top margin consistent with detachment from a booklet. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Company store scrip from the coal camps of the Appalachian region, almost certainly tied to the Island Creek Coal Company's network of company-owned retail operations in Logan County, West Virginia. Scrip of this type was issued to miners as a partial or full substitute for wages — redeemable only at the company store, a system that kept workers economically dependent on their employer and was eventually curtailed by federal labor legislation in the 1930s.
The narrow dimensions are characteristic of coal scrip denominations under a dollar, designed to be handled frequently in high-volume low-value transactions. Paper scrip at this size degrades quickly; survivors are almost always from hoards, not circulation.