4 Dollars - Joe's B & B Chetek, Wisconsin

Private bar currency — sometimes called "bar bucks" or drink tokens in paper form — enjoyed a quiet revival in the American Midwest during the 2010s and 2020s, typically issued by taverns as promotional scrip redeemable against food and drink. The four-dollar denomination is deliberately odd, almost certainly calibrated to a specific menu item or house special rather than any round-number convention.

Printed locally in Chetek, a small town in Barron County with a population under 2,200. The red stock is a practical anti-counterfeiting choice at the micro-issuer level — colored paper being cheaper and more immediately distinctive than security printing.