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1 Dollar - The Medicine Shoppe
| Issuer | The Medicine Shoppe |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green on light green underprint. Solid green panels at top and bottom carry the title and denomination in white letterpress. Four ornate scrollwork vignettes with dollar signs occupy the corners. The Medicine Shoppe trademarked logo is centred, flanked by large numeral "1" underprints left and right, with the redemption clause text in two columns. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Medicine Shoppe is a franchise pharmacy chain founded in St. Louis in 1970, and scrip of this type was issued as in-store credit currency — a practice more common among franchise retailers in the 1970s and 1980s than is generally remembered. These notes functioned as loyalty instruments or change equivalents, redeemable only at participating locations, which means survivorship is entirely accidental: most were spent, lost, or discarded rather than saved.
The presence of a watermark on a piece of retail scrip is unusual. Most franchise-issued paper avoided security features entirely given the low face value and limited redemption risk.