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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 38, September 18, 2022, Article 7

NEWMAN PORTAL ADDS FOOD STAMP NEWSLETTER

The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is the Food Stamp Change Newsletter. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. -Editor

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Newman Portal Adds Food Stamp Change Newsletter

With food stamps denominated in dollars, how did stores make change for odd amounts? Simple – they issued privately produced tokens. The number of variants ran into the thousands, and the collector urge to create order from the disparate issues took root. Jerry Schimmel led the way and began producing the quarterly Food Stamp Change Newsletter in 1980.

Collector interest was ultimately insufficient to sustain the publication, and Schimmel wrapped up the Newsletter in 1984, with the last two issues serving as an index to the series. Wikipedia notes that states began moving from paper stamps to debit cards in the late-1990s, and today this is a non-issue. Newman Portal acknowledges Michael Wehner for his assistance with this title.

Image: Inaugural cover of the Food Stamp Change Newsletter

Link to Food Stamp Change Newsletter on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/618069

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