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5 Cents - Rona Boucherville, Quebec

Issuer Le Groupe Rona
Year 1981-1983
Type Vouchers
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Obverse description Black letterpress on cream paper with scalloped guilloche border. Left vignette shows an oval inset with a family group of four figures. The "LE GROUPE RONA" logotype appears centre-right in bold display type alongside the word "CINQ", over a fine RONA-repeat underprint. Two facsimile signatures appear below, titled VICE-PRÉSIDENT EXÉCUTIF and PRÉSIDENT.
Obverse lettering 5¢ LE GROUPE RONA CINQ 5¢
ARGENT CLÉ REMBOURSABLE EN MARCHANDISES
5¢ VICE-PRÉSIDENT EXÉCUTIF PRÉSIDENT 5¢
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Rona was a hardware cooperative headquartered in Boucherville, and this scrip note was issued for internal use — most likely for employee transactions at a company store or canteen rather than as a broad public currency substitute. Corporate scrip of this kind was not unusual in Quebec through the early 1980s, particularly among large cooperative enterprises managing their own retail and distribution networks. The legal grey area surrounding such instruments was rarely tested, and most issuers simply discontinued them quietly as the practice fell out of favour.

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