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1 Cent - C. Verreault Petroleum La Baie, Quebec
| Issuer | Les Pétroles C. Verreault |
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| Value | 1 Cent 0.01 CAD = EUR 0.0062 |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned coupon with denomination numeral '1¢' in each corner. Central vignette of an anthropomorphic gas pump character. Series number printed in red. Issuer name and address appear in letterpress text above and below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1¢ LES PÉTROLES C. VERREAULT 342, 6e Rue La Baie L'Impériale ESSO Partez en grand avec ESSO LES PÉTROLES C. VERREAULT Christian Verreault Signature BILLET BONI REMBOURSABLE EN ESSENCE L'imprimeur inc. |
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A Quebec merchant scrip note, issued by a regional petroleum retailer rather than any banking authority. These privately printed trade tokens — circulated as change substitutes or loyalty instruments by small businesses — proliferated in mid-twentieth-century Quebec, particularly in communities where coin shortages or local commercial custom made them practical. L'imprimeur inc. was a Quebec job printer, not a security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for this kind of hyper-local issue.
The Verreault name is well-documented in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean commercial registry. La Baie, formerly Port-Alfred, was a working-class industrial town — not a typical market for numismatic curiosity, which makes surviving examples rarer than their humble face value implies.