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20 Cents - C. Verreault Petroleum La Baie, Quebec
| Issuer | Les Pétroles C. Verreault |
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| Printer | Improthèque Inc. |
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| Obverse description | Light blue paper coupon with the denomination 20¢ repeated in each corner. A central vignette shows a stylized anthropomorphic gas pump character. The series number is printed in red. Issued by Les Pétroles C. Verreault, an Imperial Esso dealer at 342, 6e Rue, La Baie, Quebec. |
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| Signature(s) | Christian Verreault |
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A Depression-era-style merchant scrip issued not during the Depression but almost certainly in the 1970s or 1980s, when Quebec saw a minor revival of private trade tokens and promotional paper as small businesses sought customer loyalty mechanisms outside the banking system. Improthèque Inc. was a Quebec City commercial printer with no specialization in security printing, which shows — these notes carry no anti-counterfeiting features beyond the signature of Christian Verreault himself.
La Baie is a former industrial municipality on the Saguenay fjord, absorbed into Saguenay in 2002. Petroleum scrip redeemable only at a single regional dealer had an extremely short effective life.