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5 Cents Voucher St-Césaire General Store
| Issuer | Jos. Plamondon, Magasin Général, St-Césaire |
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| Year | 1898 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed coupon on uncoated cardboard with diagonal hatching forming an X-pattern across the field. A central vignette shows a crowned circular stamp inscribed '5 CENTS 1898' within a wreath. The denomination 'CINQ CENTS' appears in large bold type flanked by 'GRATIS' on each side, with French redemption instructions across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | PRÉSENTATION DE PRÉSENTS GRATIS - GRATIS CINQ CENTS CONSERVEZ CES COUPONS ET QUAND VOUS EN AVEZ UN BON NOMBRE VENEZ CHERCHER UN PRÉSENT |
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Jos. Plamondon's general store scrip from St-Césaire is a good example of the small-denomination merchant tokens that proliferated in rural Quebec in the late nineteenth century, filling the chronic gap left by a shortage of low-value Dominion of Canada coinage in circulation. Five-cent pieces were especially prone to hoarding and disappearance from everyday trade, making fractional scrip a practical necessity rather than an affectation. Plamondon issued these on thin cardboard rather than the heavier stock used by larger urban merchants — cheap to produce, and never intended to outlast the commercial relationship they represented.