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5 Cent - Lucky Stores Incorporated California
| Issuer | Lucky Stores Incorporated |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper with a black rectangular border enclosing the note. A central oval vignette carries the denomination numeral "5¢" within a decorative surround, flanked on left and right by small vignettes of grocery store items arranged in three tiers. Issuer name and coupon legends are printed in black letterpress above and below the central motif. |
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| Obverse lettering | Lucky Stores INC. FOOD COUPON CHANGE Non-transferable GOOD ONLY AT LUCKY STORES AUTHORIZED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PROGRAM |
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Lucky Stores issued paper scrip in small denominations during the mid-20th century, likely for use in employee cafeterias or company stores — a practice that sidesteps conventional currency regulations by keeping the instrument strictly proprietary. California labor law occasionally pushed back on wage-in-scrip arrangements, which makes the precise operating context of these notes worth knowing before assuming straightforward retail use.
Surviving examples are scarce simply because low-denomination scrip was spent, discarded, or redeemed and destroyed. Nobody kept a nickel.