Catalog
0.50 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 | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-tinted card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer's trade name and firm designation appear in the upper portion, with 'VIDRIERIA BARCELONESA' underlined as the principal legend. The denomination is stated in bold type at lower left as 'VALE POR PESETAS' with the numeral '0'50' set in large characters at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted, showing the plain salmon-tinted card stock reverse, with faint show-through of the obverse letterpress text visible in mirror image. |
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Vidrieria Barcelonesa — a Barcelona glassworks — issued these fractional notes during the acute small-change shortage that persisted in Catalonia well into the early postwar years. Like hundreds of Spanish commercial and industrial firms at the time, the company essentially printed its own scrip to pay workers and facilitate transactions on company premises, filling a gap the new Francoist monetary administration was slow to close.
AL#976 is one of the more obscure entries in the Allepuz catalog of Spanish local emergency issues. The issuer's full name — Cayetano y Pablo Vilella y Cia., S. en C. — marks it as a limited partnership, unusually transparent provenance for a firm-issued vale.