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50 Cents - Canadian Tire Coupon
| Issuer | Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Size | 140 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio-style print on a pale guilloche underprint, with a finely engraved vignette of a mustachioed frontiersman in a feathered fur cap positioned at left within an ornate border. The Canadian Tire triangular logo with maple leaf is centred above bilingual redemption inscriptions in both English and French. The denomination '50¢' appears in four bold corner roundels, with two facsimile signatures — those of the Treasurer and President — printed below the central text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50¢ CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, LIMITED 50¢ CASH BONUS BILLET-BONI REDEEMABLE IN MERCHANDISE REMBOURSABLE EN MARCHANDISE ONLY AT CANADIAN TIRE STORES - UNIQUEMENT AUX MAGASINS CANADIAN TIRE Treasurer- Trésorier President-Président 50¢ LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIAN TIRE LIMITÉE 50¢ |
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Canadian Tire "money" was never legal tender and never intended to be, yet it functioned as a remarkably effective loyalty currency for decades — accepted in-store at face value on future purchases, and, peculiarly, also accepted as change by some third-party businesses across Canada. The Canadian Bank Note Company printed these to the same technical standards used for government-issue currency, which is partly why they circulated so freely outside their intended retail context.
By the mid-1980s, counterfeit versions had become enough of a problem that the company periodically redesigned the series. This 1985 issue falls within a period of deliberate security feature updates.