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5 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 | Teal left panel bears a guilloche-framed numeral 5 and a circular underprint medallion with star, flanked by a vertical column of dollar-sign microprint. Central vignette is a monochrome photographic portrait of Chief Walking Buffalo (Tatanga Mani, 1871–1967) in full headdress against an Alberta foothills landscape. Serial number and issue date appear at lower left; CMF President signature at centre base; denomination in vertical lettering at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Grandfather Tree, Historic Cochrane Ranche Cochrane, Alberta, Canada Alberta's First Nations and the natural environment were here long before it was called "Cochrane." Chief Walking Buffalo worked to promote forgiveness, peace and understanding among all peoples. His message still resonates: "Stop hating each other and start being brothers the way the Great Spirit intended." cochranedollar.ca 5 five cochrane dollars |
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Local community currencies in Canada have proliferated since the Ithaca Hours model demonstrated viability in the 1990s, but most are paper-based and short-lived. The Cochrane Monetary Foundation chose polymer for this issue — unusual at the municipal scale — likely borrowing from Bank of Canada's switch to polymer in 2011–2013, which had already normalized the material domestically.
Whether this note saw meaningful merchant uptake or remained largely a collector and novelty item is the real question with any community currency of this vintage.