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20 Cochrane Dollars Cochrane, Alberta
| Issuer | Cochrane Monetary Foundation |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and cream tonal note with a portrait vignette of Clarence Copithorne (1920–1979) at centre-right against a landscape underprint of the Alberta foothills. A repeated guilloche-style column of '20$' runs vertically at left alongside the issuer's circular seal and the denomination numeral '20' in a decorative panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | Norman Edge, Cochrane Rodeo Rider Cochrane, Alberta, Canada Clarence Copithorne was a local rancher who exemplified Cochrane's values: work hard, care for each other, and make time for friendly competition. He served in the provincial legislature for nine years and was a founding member of the Cochrane Ranche Historical Society. cochranedollar.ca 20 twenty cochrane dollars |
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The Cochrane Dollar is a local currency initiative issued to encourage spending within Cochrane's own business community — the same model used by the Calgary Dollar, the Salt Spring Dollar, and dozens of similar schemes across Canada. Notes are sold at face value in Canadian dollars and accepted by participating local merchants, theoretically keeping money circulating locally rather than draining to national chains.
Printed in Cochrane itself, which is unusual — most Canadian community currencies contract out to commercial security printers. Whether this affects counterfeit resistance is a practical question the issuer presumably weighed against cost.