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20 Cents - Ultramar Convenience Store 55 Bécancour, Québec
| Issuer | Ultramar Dépanneur 55, Bécancour, Québec |
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| Size | 140 x 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | White ground with yellow double-rule borders at top and lateral margins. The Ultramar eagle vignette in blue and gold appears centre-left alongside the bold legend "Dépanneur 55". Denomination "20¢" is repeated in white on dark-blue panels at all four corners, with redemption and disclaimer text in the lower register. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20¢ BON D'ACHAT 20¢ ULTRAMAR DÉPANNEUR 55 16 670, boul. des Acadiens Bécancour Tél. : (819) 233-3120 REMBOURSABLE EN MARCHANDISE OU ESSENCE 20¢ Cette promotion peut prendre fin en tout temps sans préavis. 20¢ |
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Canadian convenience store tokens printed on paper — locally issued scrip intended to keep small change circulating within a single business — were common in rural Québec during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when coin shortages and the transition away from the penny made exact-change transactions genuinely inconvenient. Bécancour, a municipality on the south shore of the St. Lawrence assembled from eleven merged parishes in 1965, had exactly the kind of dispersed, car-dependent population that made a corner dépanneur both essential infrastructure and a natural place for this kind of informal monetary improvisation.
Ultramar's retail network in Québec frequently anchored these combined gas station and convenience formats. Whether this scrip was issuer-authorized at the corporate level or a purely local initiative by the franchise operator is unknown.