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5 Disney Dollars
| Issuer | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette of Goofy set against a purple sunburst underprint, flanked by laurel branches and Tinker Bell figures at each corner. A Mickey Mouse silhouette guilloche appears at left alongside the facsimile signature of Scrooge McDuck as Treasurer. Denomination numerals occupy all four corners within ornate engraved borders. |
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| Reverse description | Panoramic vignette of the Walt Disney World Resort landscape incorporating Spaceship Earth at Epcot, Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom, the Monorail and the Mark Twain steamboat, rendered in an engraved style with fine guilloche border work. |
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Disney Dollars were a genuine private scrip, legally redeemable at face value within Disney parks and resorts — a status that gave them standing most novelty currencies lack. The American Bank Note Company, by 1991 nearing the end of its long run as one of the Western Hemisphere's dominant security printers, produced the series with the same anti-counterfeiting specifications it applied to sovereign currency contracts.
ABNC filed for bankruptcy in 1999, which has led some collectors to treat late-contract Disney issues as incidental documentation of the firm's final decade.