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5 Disney Dollars
| Issuer | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Goofy in an oval frame flanked by laurel branches, set against a light blue guilloche underprint with a Mickey Mouse silhouette rosette to the left. Tinker Bell figures appear at each corner on the numeral medallions, with a facsimile signature reading 'Scrooge McDuck, Treasurer' to the lower left. |
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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 detailed intaglio-style engraving against a decorative guilloche border. |
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Disney Dollars were introduced in 1987 as a proprietary scrip redeemable at Disney parks and resorts, deliberately sized and weighted to feel like legal tender without technically being currency. The U.S. Treasury raised no objection, having long accepted that novelty and souvenir notes fall outside counterfeiting statutes provided they are not designed to deceive as genuine U.S. currency — a line Disney's design team was careful not to cross.
The 1994 series was produced by the American Banknote Corporation, which was simultaneously printing legitimate government paper for several nations. Cotton substrate was a deliberate choice to reinforce the tactile authority of the object.