5 Cents - Canadian Tire 'Money' "at Canadian Tire store or gas bar"

Canadian Tire coupons are not legal tender and never were, but the Canadian Bank Note Company — the same Ottawa firm that printed federal government issues — produced them with full security printing discipline: distinct serial numbering, deliberate paper stock, and design elements borrowed from genuine currency aesthetics. The decision to use CBN was a calculated move to deter counterfeiting of what was, in effect, a privately run loyalty scrip scheme.

The 1974 date places this in the early period before the coupons became a genuine secondary medium of exchange in some rural communities, where they were accepted at face value by third-party businesses entirely unaffiliated with the chain.