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10 Cents - La Baraka Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec
| Issuer | Restaurant-Bar La Baraka |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | The repeated "La Baraka" name forms a typographic underprint across the face. Denomination "10¢" appears in each corner, with a red serial number. Central text states redemption conditions in French. |
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| Reverse description | Dollar sign vignettes occupy each corner within ornamental scrollwork frames. A curved banner at top reads "DOLLAR LA BARAKA" with establishment address, contact details, and redemption conditions in the central field. |
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La Baraka was a restaurant-bar in Baie-du-Febvre, a small municipality on the south shore of the St. Lawrence in Mauricie-Centre-du-Québec. This 10-cent token note is a scrip issue — private fractional currency produced by a local business, almost certainly to manage small change shortages or to keep customers cycling money back through the establishment rather than spending it elsewhere. Quebec saw a modest wave of such commercial scrip through the mid-twentieth century, particularly in rural communities where coin supply was inconsistent and banking infrastructure thin.
Survival rate for these hyperlocal issues is largely accidental — kept as curiosities rather than redeemed, which is the only reason most exist at all.