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1 Dollar - Crooked River Roundup Pineville, Oregon

Issuer Crooked River Roundup / Crook County Centennial Committee
Year 1959
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Currency Dollar (1785-date)
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Obverse description Green-tinted note with a central vignette of a cowboy astride a bucking bronco, framed by a diamond-pattern border. Denomination "$1" appears in all four corners. Centennial and event inscriptions are arranged in multiple registers above and below the central vignette.
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Reverse lettering CROOK COUNTY CENTENNIAL BUCK
Good For $1.00 in Trade in Crook County
REDEMPTION EXPIRATION DATE- SEPTEMBER 28th, 1959
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Issued in 1959 to coincide with Crook County's centennial celebrations, this novelty dollar is one of hundreds of local scrip pieces produced by Oregon counties, fairs, and frontier pageants during the postwar commemorative boom. The Crooked River Roundup itself is a genuine rodeo with deep roots in Prineville — one of the older continuous rodeo events in the Pacific Northwest — which gives this piece slightly more institutional weight than the typical chamber-of-commerce souvenir.

The "deer skin leather" composition listed in most catalogs is almost certainly tanned split leather or a leather-finish paper stock rather than actual buckskin, a common materials claim in frontier-themed scrip that rarely holds up to close examination.

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