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25 Cents - St-Césaire General Store Saint-Césaire, Quebec
| Issuer | St-Césaire General Store |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue central panel carries a crowned royal cipher vignette enclosing the denomination "25 CENTS 1895" in a circular motif, flanked left by "TWENTY FIVE" and right by "CENTS" in bold letterpress. A decorative border with corner ornaments frames the whole coupon, with the legend "FREE" repeated on either side of the header band. |
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| Reverse lettering | J.P. |
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Small-denomination merchant scrip from rural Quebec was a practical workaround for the chronic shortage of low-value Dominion coinage in circulation during the late nineteenth century. General stores in communities like Saint-Césaire routinely issued their own paper tokens redeemable against future purchases, effectively tying customers to the issuing establishment while solving a genuine transactional problem.
At 52 x 20 mm, this note is closer in size to a till receipt than anything a bank would produce — almost certainly printed locally on whatever press was available, with no security features beyond the issuer's name.