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10 Exeter Pounds
| Issuer | Exeter Pound CIC |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a monochrome photographic image of a drummer performing live at the Exeter Cavern venue, overlaid in green on a guilloche underprint. The Cavern logo appears upper centre with a holographic security patch at lower right. Denominations and issuer text appear at left in green letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a monochrome photographic street-level view of Gandy Street, Exeter, with independent shop signage visible, rendered in green over a guilloche underprint. A vignette of a barn owl occupies the right margin. Denomination and issuer text appear at left in green letterpress; artwork credit to Spike Myers printed vertically at right. |
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The Exeter Pound was a community currency scheme launched in 2015, part of a broader wave of UK local currency projects — Bristol, Totnes, Lewes — that sought to encourage spending within defined geographic boundaries. Unlike some of its peers, the Exeter scheme remained modest in scale and never achieved the merchant penetration that would make it genuinely self-sustaining. By the early 2020s it had effectively ceased active circulation.
The hologram strip is notably basic by commercial security standards, reflecting the economics of small-run community currency production rather than any central bank specification. Designer Daniel Hillier handled the artwork locally.