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10 Cents - York University cafeteria scrip
| Issuer | York University (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 10¢ UNIVERSITÉ 1987 Manager Food Services YORK 1988 La Responsable des Services de Restauration UNIVERSITY 10¢ BRITISH AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED |
| Reverse description | Blue and black on white with an elaborate central guilloche rosette flanked by radiating lathe-work fans. Four black corner triangles carry the 10¢ denomination in white. Two red serial numbers are printed above the central vignette. Bilingual conditions of use in four numbered clauses occupy the central panel in English and French. |
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York University issued cafeteria scrip in the late 1980s as a meal-plan management tool — students purchased scrip in bulk and spent it across campus food services rather than handling cash at the counter. The system was common among North American universities before magnetic-stripe meal cards rendered paper tokens obsolete through the 1990s.
BA International, the successor identity of the British American Bank Note Company, printed this in Ottawa — the same facility that produced Canadian federal currency. Contracting a security printer for low-denomination cafeteria scrip was not unusual; universities needed counterfeit resistance, however modest the face value.