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1 Dollar - M.C.S.C. Scolastic Money Montreal, Quebec
| Issuer | Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal (C.E.C.M.) / Montreal Catholic School Commission (M.C.S.C.) |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is occupied by the heraldic coat of arms of the Montreal Catholic School Commission, surmounted by a beaver atop ivy foliage and flanked by a ribbon scroll bearing the Latin motto EX LABORE FRUCTUS. Guilloche-framed oval vignettes to the left and right each carry the numeral 1, set between columnar pilasters with decorative scroll flourishes at the base. The entire design is printed in green on white paper, with the bilingual legend MONNAIE SCOLAIRE – SCOLASTIC MONEY in bold letterpress within a ruled panel at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | C. E. C. M. M. C. S. C. $ 1 EX LABORE FRUCTUS MONNAIE SCOLAIRE - SCOLASTIC MONEY |
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The Montreal Catholic School Commission operated an internal scrip currency for use within its school network — a classroom economy system where students earned and spent notional dollars as part of practical arithmetic and civics instruction. This was not an isolated experiment; Catholic school boards across Quebec ran similar pedagogical programs through the mid-twentieth century, though few produced printed scrip with this degree of finish.
The bilingual designation — "M.C.S.C." on one face, "C.E.C.M." on the other — reflects the Commission's administrative reality: a single English-acronym authority governing a French-majority institution in a city where that tension was never far from the surface.