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2 Stonehouse Pounds
| Issuer | Stroud Pound Co-op Ltd |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse lettering | felt carding machine cotswold sheep Edwin Beard Budding - (1795 - 1846) Lawnmower inventor www.stroudpound.org.uk tenter rack director director secretary |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Stroud Pound is one of the more administratively coherent local currency schemes to emerge from the British complementary currency movement of the late 2000s. Stonehouse, a town within the Stroud district, received its own denominated notes under the broader scheme — a deliberate localization within a localization, intended to anchor spending to specific community boundaries rather than the wider Stroud Valley network.
The watermark is notable for a community-printed issue at this scale. Most comparable UK local currencies of the period relied on holographic stickers or serialization as their primary anti-counterfeiting measure; a genuine watermark required commissioning purpose-made security paper.