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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1919119, member: 12789&quot;]At the moment this is my earliest Canadian note:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/images/canada25c1870.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>These were known as shinplasters, and unlike the fractional currency in the USA that stopped being issued in ca. 1875 - in Canada the 25 cent note was issued until the 1923 series stopped being circulated in the late 1920s.&nbsp; They were convenient for sending small amounts of money through the postal system.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/canada/images/canada25c1900.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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