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10 Dollars - Sears Gift Certificate
| Issuer | Sears Canada Inc. |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green tones on a light guilloché underprint of repeating "Sears" lettering. A vignette of the family group appears at lower left in muted tones. The Sears logotype is enclosed in a rectangular border at upper centre, with bilingual script text and endorsement panel at right. |
| Reverse lettering | For deposit only Dépôt seulement TO THE CREDIT OF À PORTER AU CRÉDIT DE SEARS CANADA INC. ENDORSEMENT ENDOSSEMENT Thank you for your patronage Nous vous remercions de faire confiance à SEARS CANADA INC. SEARS |
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Sears Canada turned to the Canadian Bank Note Company — a security printer whose primary clients were the Bank of Canada and foreign sovereigns — to produce its gift certificate stock in the 1990s. The choice was deliberate: CBN's intaglio capability and serialization infrastructure made counterfeiting a retailer certificate meaningfully difficult, a real concern after several high-profile gift card fraud schemes circulated through North American retail chains during that decade.
The 178 × 83 mm format matches the physical footprint of a standard banknote more closely than most retail scrip of the period — an intentional alignment that reinforced the certificate's transactional legitimacy at point of sale.