Editing Scrip (section)

=== Stamp scrip ===
{{Main|Demurrage currency}}
Stamp scrip, sometimes called coupon scrip,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clevelandfed.org/-/media/project/clevelandfedtenant/clevelandfedsite/publications/economic-commentary/2008/ec-20080401-stamp-scrip-money-people-paid-to-use-pdf.pdf |title=Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid To Use |last=Champ |first=Bruce |date=April 2008 |website=Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Department |access-date=21 April 2025}}</ref> was a type of local money designed to be circulated and not to be hoarded. 

One type of this worked this way. Each scrip certificate had printed boxes; every month a stamp costing a certain amount (in a typical case, 1% of the face value) had to be purchased and recorded in a box, otherwise the scrip lost all its value. This provided a great incentive to spend the scrip quickly. The scheme was used successfully in Germany and Austria in the early 1930s, after national currencies collapsed. National governments considered themselves threatened by the success of stamp scrip projects, and shut them down; similar misgivings discouraged their later use elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news|title=A maverick money scheme from the 1930s could save the Greek economy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/17/currency-scheme-1930s-save-greek-economy-eurozone-crisis|work=The Guardian|date=18 February 2015}}</ref>

The Alberta Social Credit Party government in 1937 issued [[prosperity certificate]]s, a form of provincial currency, in an effort to encourage spending. This scrip had boxes in which a stamp equal to 2% of the value had to be affixed each week. Thus, the value of the certificate was covered by the cost of the stamps at the year's end when it matured.