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2 Cochrane Dollars Cochrane, Alberta
| Issuer | Cochrane Monetary Foundation |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars 2 CAD = USD 1.46 |
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| Reverse description | Orange-toned note with a central vignette combining an aerial sepia photograph of Historic Downtown Mainstreet Cochrane overlaid with a fine-line guilloche net pattern. At right, a colour vignette of a pioneer woman bronze sculpture with poultry figures at her feet; denomination numeral "2" in guilloche rosette at lower right. Left panel carries the Cochrane Dollar logo and descriptive text in white on an orange underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | Historic Downtown Mainstreet Cochrane Cochrane, Alberta, Canada Not long ago, most businesses were started by families and handed down through the generations. Enterprising locals used their talents to serve their neighbours and support their families. Cochrane was built by many such families, like the MacKays. cochranedollar.ca 2 two cochrane dollars |
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The Cochrane Dollar is a local currency initiative launched to encourage residents to spend within the town rather than at big-box retailers in nearby Calgary. These community currencies — sometimes called BerkShares-style instruments after the Massachusetts model — circulate at par with the Canadian dollar within participating local businesses but cannot be redeemed outside the issuing network, effectively trapping purchasing power locally.
Printed in Cochrane itself, the note avoids the offshore production common to many Canadian municipal currency schemes. Whether the Cochrane Monetary Foundation sustained meaningful merchant uptake beyond the initial promotional period is not well documented in the numismatic record.