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[[File:Shinplaster Canada 1870.jpg|thumb|Canadian 25¢ "shinplaster", front and back (1870)]]
[[File:25cents canada1900.jpg|thumb|Canadian 25¢ "shinplaster", front (1900)]]
[[File:25cents canada1923.jpg|thumb|Canadian 25¢ "shinplaster", front (1923)]]
[[File:25cents revers canada 1900-1923.jpg|thumb|Canadian 25¢ "shinplaster", back (1900 / 1923)]]
'''Shinplaster''' was [[paper money]] of low denomination, typically less than one dollar, [[List of circulating currencies|circulating]] widely in the economies of the 19th century where there was a shortage of circulating coinage.{{clarify|date=March 2015}} The shortage of circulating coins was primarily due to the
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==United States==
{{see also|Fractional currency}}
Private issues from stores, bank issues and tokens as well circulated as a method of accomplishing commercial transactions from 1837 to 1861. Shinplasters circulated in many parts of the western frontier during the mid 1800s, including in the [[Republic of Texas]] during its early days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houstoncoins.com/blog/currency-of-the-republic-of-texas/|title=How the Republic of Texas began its Paper Money Career|date=September 6, 2016|work=Currency of the Republic of Texas|accessdate=2019-07-12}}</ref> The breadth of these private systems and the lack of integrity and security caused Francis
Shinplasters circulated in the United States from 1861 to 1869, during the Civil War and the
The
==Canada==
In Canada, the term ''shinplaster'' was widely used for 25-cent paper monetary notes which circulated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first design was printed on March 1, 1870, and the final design was first printed on July 2, 1923.<ref>[http://www.banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/AME/CAN/CAN-DOM.htm#DOMINION_OF_CANADA DOMINION OF CANADA 1870-1923 Fractional "Shinplaster" Issue] Banknote.ws</ref>
The term likely arose from the previously issued 5
==Australia==
Shinplasters, or "calabashes" (as they were known in southern Queensland), were a feature of the [[Squatting (pastoral)|Squatters]]' vast pastoral enterprises, and often circulated in the towns of the bush alongside and in place of legal tender. These private [[IOU (debt)|IOUs]] circulated widely, at times making up the bulk of cash in circulation, especially in the 1840s and
In some places they formed the core of a company shop economy ([[Truck system]]), circulating as [[Private currency|private currencies]]. They were often of such low quality that they could not be hoarded, and shopkeepers off the property would not take them, as such currency would deteriorate into illegibility before they could be redeemed.
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There are tales of unscrupulous shopkeepers and others baking or otherwise artificially aging their calabashes given as change to travelers so that they crumbled to uselessness before they could be redeemed.<ref name=D/>
== See also ==
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