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2 Dollars - School Money
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| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUX 2 2 TWO MONNAIE SCOLAIRE — SCHOOL MONEY |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain white paper reverse, showing only a faint bleed-through impression of the obverse design visible as a ghost image. |
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School money — also called "educational currency" or "play money" — was produced in large quantities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a pedagogical tool, intended to teach arithmetic and basic commerce to children who had little practical exposure to banking. This particular piece, denominated at 2 dollars, falls into a category that straddles toy and teaching aid.
Attribution and dating of school money is notoriously difficult. Most pieces were produced by small regional printers with no obligation to mark issuing authority, date, or series information, leaving collectors with physical evidence alone.