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0.30 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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| Value | 30 Centimos (0.30 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in off-white, with all text in black letterpress. The issuer's trading name appears at top, followed by the firm name in smaller type; a thick rule underlines the issuer name. The denomination is set in two lines at lower left with the numeral "0'30" in large bold type at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain off-white card stock, bearing only faint pencilled manuscript notations consistent with internal stock or accounting use. |
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Vidrieria Barcelonesa — a glassworks company operating under the Vilella family partnership — issued these fractional notes during the acute coin shortage that plagued Catalonia in the late Civil War and immediate postwar years. Private commercial issuers of this kind filled a vacuum the new Francoist administration had not yet plugged, producing their own scrip in denominations too small to bother forging and accepted only within a narrow local radius.
The 0.30 peseta value is an odd one, suggesting the firm had specific transactional needs — likely tied to pricing structures for small retail or employee transactions rather than general commerce. The thick card stock was a practical choice: it survived pocket wear better than thin paper at this miniature size.