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50 Cents - Victoria Stores Sweetsburg, Quebec
| Issuer | Magasins Victoria Stores, Sweetsburg, Quebec |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ce coupon certifie que vous avez acheté pour une valeur de .... et vous donnera droit à une magnifique prime quand vous aurez le montant requis. MAGASINS VICTORIA STORES Sweetsburg, Que. 50c This coupon certifies that you have bought for an amount of .... and will entitle you to a beautiful premium when you have the required amount. |
| Reverse description | Plain beige cardboard reverse with a single purple rubber-stamp impression at centre reading "G. J. LABRECQUE", underlined by three horizontal ruled lines of diminishing weight, likely indicating the proprietor or guarantor of the voucher. |
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Magasins Victoria Stores was a dry goods and general merchandise operation in Sweetsburg, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Small merchants in the region issued fractional cardboard tokens and scrip throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coin in rural commerce — federal coinage simply did not circulate in sufficient volume to keep transactions moving.
The bilingual naming convention — French "Magasins" paired with English "Stores" — reflects Sweetsburg's mixed Anglophone and Francophone character at the time. No central banking authority sanctioned these issues; they were redeemable only at the issuing merchant.