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1 Cent H.M.C.S. Lévis
| Issuer | H.M.C.S. Lévis Canteen |
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| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper with black letterpress print throughout. The vessel name appears at top, the denomination numeral with cent symbol at centre, and the word CANTEEN at foot, all in bold sans-serif type with no additional vignette or border ornament. |
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| Obverse lettering | H.M.C.S. LÉVIS 1¢ CANTEEN |
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Canteen currency issued aboard or at the shore establishment HMCS Lévis was a practical solution to a persistent problem: preventing Canadian naval personnel from spending canteen tokens or scrip at civilian establishments. The Royal Canadian Navy used base-specific paper scrip extensively during the Second World War to control canteen revenues and reduce the movement of cash through lower-deck hands. HMCS Lévis, a Flower-class corvette commissioned in May 1941, was lost to a U-boat torpedo in September of that year — giving this particular canteen issue an extraordinarily compressed window of possible circulation, likely no more than a few months.