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10 Cochrane Dollars Cochrane, Alberta
| Issuer | Cochrane Monetary Foundation |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars 10 CAD = USD 7.32 |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue left panel bears the numeral 10 within a guilloche rosette above a star medallion seal and serial number. A sepia-toned photographic vignette of Dr. Andrew Walter Park (1879–1962) in military uniform dominates the centre-right, set against an Alberta mountain landscape with wave-pattern underprint. The CMF President's signature and issuer title appear in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The left panel in blue carries the Cochrane Dollar logo and a text vignette recounting Dr. Park's service to the community. The central and right fields present a sepia-toned photographic vignette of two figures fishing on the bank of the Bow River, with the Bow River Bridge visible in the background and a guilloche wave underprint overlaid. The denomination numeral 10 appears in a rosette at lower right, with the vertical legend 'ten cochrane dollars' along the right edge. |
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Local currency projects in western Canada have proliferated since the early 2000s, but most fold within a few years for want of merchant buy-in. The Cochrane Dollar, issued by the Cochrane Monetary Foundation, was part of a broader community currency movement aimed at keeping spending within the local economy — a model borrowed loosely from the BerkShares program in Massachusetts and similar schemes in British Columbia.
Printed on polymer within Canada, the note benefits from the same substrate technology that the Bank of Canada adopted for its federal series in 2011 — unusual for a community-scale issuer, where paper stock is far more common.