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0.20 Pesetas Barcelona; Vidrieria Barcelonesa
| Issuer | Vidrieria Barcelonesa (Cayetano y Pablo Vilella y Cia., S. en C.) |
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| Year | 1939-1943 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Cayetano y Pablo Vilella y Cia., S. en C. VIDRIERÍA BARCELONESA VALE POR PESETAS 0'20 |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain card stock; faint offset impression of the obverse lettering is visible through the thin stock, with no intentional design or text. |
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Vidrieria Barcelonesa was a glassworks company operating in Barcelona under the Vilella family partnership. This note belongs to the wave of privately issued emergency fractional currency — moneda de empresa — that proliferated across Catalonia and the rest of Republican-controlled Spain from 1936 onward, as the Civil War drained small-denomination coinage from circulation. The practice continued well into the early Franco years for the same reason: the Nationalist government was slow to restore adequate change.
A glassworks firm issuing circulating scrip redeemable at face value is exactly the kind of micro-monetary arrangement that characterizes this period more than any other in modern Spanish monetary history.