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50 Cents - Canadian Tire 'Money' "at Canadian Tire stores"
| Issuer | Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio-style print on buff paper with fine guilloche underprint and decorative border. Left vignette shows a bust of a frontiersman in a feathered cap. Centre carries the Canadian Tire triangular logo with maple leaf, flanked by bilingual redemption legends and denomination numerals in corner roundels. Treasurer's facsimile signature appears lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50¢ CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION, LIMITED 50¢ CASH BONUS BILLET-BONI REDEEMABLE IN MERCHANDISE REMBOURSABLE EN MARCHANDISE AT CANADIAN TIRE STORES AUX MAGASINS CANADIAN TIRE TREASURER - TRÉSORIER 50¢ LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIAN TIRE, LIMITÉE 50¢ |
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Canadian Tire "money" occupies a genuinely odd legal category: it is not currency, not a gift certificate in the traditional sense, but a private loyalty scrip with no expiry date, issued in denominations modeled deliberately on Bank of Canada notes. The Canadian Bank Note Company — the same Ottawa-based security printer responsible for federal government issues — has printed the series, lending it a production pedigree that most retailers' promotional instruments simply don't have.
By the mid-1980s, Canadian Tire scrip had developed a secondary economy of its own, traded between collectors and redeemed by third parties who had never shopped at the stores. The 1985 date falls within a transitional redesign period for the series.