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| Issuer | Banque du Québec (Fantasy) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Gold-tinted note with a guilloche underprint background. To the left, a large ornate numeral "10" vignette is interlaced with the word "QUÉBEC" in decorative letterpress, flanked by horizontal band ornaments and the name "DRUMMONDVILLE" below. A fleur-de-lis emblem appears at upper centre, while to the upper right a small frog vignette accompanies the numeral "10". The right half carries a portrait of an unidentified male figure. Disclaimer text and the date "QUÉBEC 1990" appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Silver-grey toned note dominated by the large word "QUÉBEC" as a pale underprint guilloche across the full width. To the upper left the numeral "10" appears in bold, and a fleur-de-lis ornament is placed at the upper right corner. A central vignette illustrates a Quebec frog (Grenouille du Québec) resting on rocky terrain beside a stylised landscape with distant shoreline. The denomination "10" appears in bold at the lower right, with the serial number printed twice in the lower portion. |
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The Banque du Québec never existed as a functioning institution authorized to issue currency — this is a fantasy note produced within the sovereigntist political milieu that intensified around the time of the failed Meech Lake Accord. Several such pieces circulated as political artifacts or collector curiosities during the late 1980s and early 1990s, imagining what a post-confederation Québec monetary system might look like.
No central bank mandate, no legal tender status, no redemption obligation. Collectible strictly as a document of political imagination rather than monetary history.