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1 Dollar - Tommy Cooks Scarborough, Ontario
| Issuer | Tommy Cooks Restaurant |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-printed novelty banknote-style voucher imitating the layout of a US dollar note, with large numeral "1" corner pieces and a decorative guilloche border. The centre bears the Tommy Cooks restaurant logo — a cartoon chef fish character — within the oversized lettering "TOMMY COOKS" and the tagline "cool bar hot grill". Redemption text and the address "1911 Eglinton Ave. East, Scarborough, Ontario" appear in two flanking text blocks, with a signature line reading "Per:" at lower right and the slogan "IN TOMMY WE TRUST" above it. |
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| Reverse description | Green-printed reverse in the same novelty banknote style, with a dense guilloche underprint across the entire field and large "ONE" corner numerals. Two circular vignette medallions, each containing the cartoon chef fish character, are positioned at left and right, flanking a central text panel with reservation and redemption instructions. The denomination "ONE DOLLAR" is rendered in large display lettering along the lower border. |
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Tommy Cooks was a restaurant in Scarborough, Ontario that issued its own scrip — a practice far more common in rural or isolated communities than in a Toronto suburb, which makes this piece genuinely odd. Restaurant-issued paper was typically a meal ticket or credit token, not a denomination styled as currency, and the dollar format here suggests it was intended to circulate internally as a kind of house credit rather than as a straightforward prepayment chit.
Locally printed in Scarborough. No federal authorization, no bank backing — entirely a private commercial instrument whose legal standing under Canadian law at the time of issue would have been questionable at best.