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20 Dollars School Bank
| Issuer | Banque Scolaire |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 109 x 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central circular vignette of Samuel de Champlain within a maple-leaf wreath, printed in dark blue on salmon-pink paper. Denomination numeral "20" appears in ornate cartouches at left and right, with Roman numerals "XX" at lower left and right. The title "BANQUE SCOLAIRE" is lettered across the top, with maple-leaf corner ornaments framing the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE SCOLAIRE 20 20 XX XX |
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Banque Scolaire notes were issued as educational currency for use within Quebec school savings programs — a cooperative thrift initiative that spread through Catholic parish schools in the early twentieth century. Students deposited small sums and received these notes as receipts or transaction instruments within the classroom economy, the goal being to instill savings habits before children ever encountered a real bank.
The Montreal printing is consistent with several Quebec educational publishers active in the period. These notes circulated only within individual school systems and had no legal tender status whatsoever.