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0.50 Pesetas Barcelona; Preventori Judicial - Economat
| Issuer | Preventori Judicial de Barcelona - Economat |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black letterpress, divided by a vertical rule into two panels. The left panel carries the large-format denomination numeral '0'50' above 'PESSETES'; the right panel bears the 'ECONOMAT' legend, a serial number, the issue date, and the expiry notice. A circular red administrative stamp of the Establiments Correccionals de Barcelona overlaps both panels. |
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| Obverse lettering | PREVENTORI JUDICIAL DE BARCELONA VAL per 0'50 PESSETES ECONOMAT Barcelona, 1 d'Abril 1938 Aquest Val caduca el 30 de juny proper. (Translation: Judicial Prevention of Barcelona Voucher for 0.50 Pesetas Economat Barcelona, April 1, 1938 This Voucher expires on June 30th.) |
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The Preventori Judicial de Barcelona was the city's pre-trial detention facility — what the Spanish administration called a preventorio, holding those awaiting judgment rather than serving sentences. During the Civil War, Catalan institutions at every level, including prisons and their internal canteens, issued their own fractional scrip when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. This note is one of those institutional emergency issues, redeemable only within the economat — the facility's internal commissary.
Circulation was by definition confined to a single building and a captive population. Very few survived.