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5 Disney Dollars
| Issuer | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars 5 USD = CAD 6.80 |
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| Obverse lettering | DISNEY DOLLARS MAY BE USED AS LEGAL TENDER ONLY AT DISNEYLAND® PARK, DISNEYLAND HOTEL, WALT DISNEY WORLD® RESORT AND THE DISNEY STORE (U.S.A. & PUERTO RICO). FIVE Disney Dollars may be spent or collected and saved as souvenirs and are redeemable at any time before or after any period of inactivity. GOOFY FIVE DISNEY DOLLARS SERIES 1996 5 5 5 5 |
| Reverse description | Panoramic vignette of the Walt Disney World Resort skyline rendered in fine intaglio-style line work, incorporating Spaceship Earth at Epcot, Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom, the Monorail, and the Mark Twain steamboat, all set against a light guilloche underprint. |
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Disney Dollars were introduced in 1987 as a proprietary scrip redeemable at Disney parks, hotels, and stores — a cashflow mechanism that earned the company interest on float while visitors voluntarily surrendered real currency for themed paper. The 1996 series was produced by the American Banknote Corporation, the same firm behind countless sovereign issues, which accounts for the surprisingly high production quality.
Legal tender they are not, but the U.S. Treasury consistently declined to prohibit them, ruling that novelty scrip redeemable at face value by the issuer doesn't constitute counterfeiting or unlicensed currency. Disney discontinued the program entirely in 2016.