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50 Cents - Notation Fee Vital Statistics Act BC
| Issuer | Province of British Columbia |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | "VITAL STATISTICS ACT" BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTATION FEE FIFTY CENTS RECEIVED No. 2534 |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper ground with undulating perforated edge, showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text in mirror image, confirming single-sided printing on thin paper stock. |
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British Columbia's Vital Statistics Act authorized the collection of small fees for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages — this 50-cent piece was a notation fee receipt coupon, not a circulating banknote in any conventional sense. The Province issued these as a way to standardize fee collection across rural registrars who might otherwise handle transactions inconsistently.
The faint green tint is characteristic of low-denomination provincial fiscal paper from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, chosen as much to deter ink-based alterations as for any aesthetic reason.