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1 Disney Dollar
| Issuer | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Size | 159 x 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of Mickey Mouse set against a radiating blue and pink sunburst underprint, flanked by laurel sprays, with Tinker Bell figures at each corner atop numeral cartouches. A Mickey Mouse-shaped guilloche rosette appears at left alongside a facsimile signature reading "Scrooge McDuck, Treasurer". Denomination ONE printed as a large grey underprint at right. |
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| Reverse description | Central oval vignette of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland rendered in fine intaglio-style engraving, surrounded by decorative scrollwork, with colourful pennants at the gatehouse. Tinker Bell vignettes occupy each corner atop numeral cartouches, mirroring the obverse layout. The note is printed in teal-green tones with a pink and blue gradient band along the lower border. |
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Disney Dollars launched in May 1987 as a proprietary scrip redeemable at Disney parks and resort shops — a closed-loop currency designed as much to be kept as a souvenir as spent. That retention rate was the point: unredeemed notes represented pure profit, a mechanism Disney openly acknowledged. The first series denominations were $1, $5, and $10, with the $1 note featuring the "Series A" designation printed on the face.
The Scrooge McDuck treasurer signature on the $1 is a deliberate in-joke — Uncle Scrooge being, canonically, the wealthiest fictional duck in existence. Later series rotated signatories, making the 1987 originals the only notes bearing his name in that role.