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2 Dollars - Tercentenary of Bernières-Saint-Nicolas Quebec
| Issuer | Merchants of Bernières-Saint-Nicolas |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Parc du Tricentenaire in Saint-Nicolas rendered as a photographic underprint in rose-red tones, framed by a decorative guilloche border. A cartouche at top centre bears the inscriptions BERNIÈRES / TRICENTENAIRE / SAINT-NICOLAS flanked by the dates 1694 and 1994. The denomination 2 DOLLARS appears at lower left and upper right, with two manuscript signatures above the RESPONSABLE titles at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette reproduces a photographic image of Maison Filteau on rue des Pionniers, dating from approximately 1890, printed as a tonal underprint. The denomination 2 DOLLARS appears at upper right, and a lower inscription credits the note as a merchant initiative of Bernières-Saint-Nicolas. The note is framed by a guilloche border consistent with the obverse. |
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Issued in 1994 to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of the municipality of Bernières-Saint-Nicolas on the south shore of the St. Lawrence opposite Quebec City, this is a local scrip note — a merchant-backed promotional currency with no legal tender status. These tercentenary notes were produced by participating businesses as a community promotion tool, redeemable for goods at issuing merchants rather than through any banking mechanism. Deschamps Impression, a long-established Quebec commercial printer, handled the production — a firm better known for municipal and institutional print work than banknote-style security printing.