0.05 Pesetas Barcelona; Vidrieria Barcelonesa

Vidrieria Barcelonesa was a glassworks firm operating in Barcelona under the Vilella family partnership. This note belongs to the large category of Spanish Civil War and immediate post-war emergency fractional currency — locally issued scrip produced by businesses, municipalities, and cooperatives to address the catastrophic shortage of small change that persisted well into the early Franco years. The 1939–1943 date range places this squarely in the autarky period, when official coinage was still being reorganized after the war's destruction of normal monetary circulation.

That a glassworks issued its own fractional currency tells you something about how thoroughly the small-denomination economy had broken down.