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1 Dollar - City of North Bend North Bend, Oregon
| Issuer | City of North Bend, Oregon |
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| Year | 1933 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin, Latin (cursive) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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North Bend's wooden dollar was issued in 1933 as scrip during the acute cash shortage that followed the bank holiday declared by Roosevelt in March of that year. Hundreds of American municipalities resorted to emergency scrip — wood, leather, and cardboard among them — to keep local commerce moving when federal currency simply wasn't circulating. Oregon's timber industry made wood the obvious material choice along the coast.
The Mitchell and Thoele catalog references place this squarely among the documented Depression scrip issues, not a later souvenir reproduction.