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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (139185)	2/10/2018 12:27:54 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218184

Paper "Money" issued by individual merchants on the frontier of Canada to make-up for the shortage of pennies were certainly more plaster than money. Similar in value to a retail coupon worth 15 cents off on a box of Corn Flakes. There's no doubt some old ladies who save collections of expired retail coupons, but not many. It's sort of eccentric. en.wikipedia.org Shinplasters were often a variety of token intended to alleviate a shortage of small change in growing frontier regions. They were sometimes used in company shop economies or peonages in place of legal tender.