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| Uitgever | Thomas Cook Inc. |
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| Jaar | 1980 |
| Type | Cheques |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | U.S. $100 united states dollar travelers cheque SPECIMEN Countersign here in the presence of person cashing One Hundred U.S. Dollars or the equivalent abroad at current rates of exchange When this travelers cheque is countersigned by the holder, the Issuer will pay to the order of MasterCard Travelers Cheque Issuer: Thomas Cook Inc. New York Thomas Cook Signature of holder SPECIMEN |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving beveiliging | All-over microtext underprint repeating 'MasterCard' across the reverse; intricate guilloche pattern border on both faces |
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| Opmerkingen |
Thomas Cook's traveler's cheque operation in the United States was run through Thomas Cook Inc. as a separate entity from its British parent, reflecting the competitive American market dominated by American Express. By 1980, Cook held a respectable but secondary position in U.S. cheque issuance, and the MasterCard co-branding on this series was a deliberate attempt to leverage an established payment network for point-of-sale recognition — particularly useful in regions where the Thomas Cook name carried less weight than it did in Europe.
The microtext security line was a relatively recent adoption in cheque printing by this period. Refund fraud, not counterfeiting, was the dominant abuse vector for traveler's cheques throughout the late 1970s.