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0.50 Pesetas Talamanca, Cooperativa Agrícola Ferrer Guàrdia
| Issuer | Cooperativa Agrícola Ferrer Guàrdia, Talamanca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1398-A |
| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in dark blue on a beige ground, with a dotted border frame and geometric underprint pattern filling the field. The issuer name and place of issue are set in bold letterpress type across the upper and central registers, flanked by the denomination value stated twice in large numerals. A cautionary clause in Catalan appears in smaller type along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | N.º 187 0`50 Ptes. COOPERATIVA AGRÍCOLA FERRER GUÀRDIA TALAMANCA VAL 0`50 Ptes. El Vals estripats o que ofereixin dubtes, no seran admesos. (Translation: Agricultural Cooperative Ferrer Guàrdia It`s worth 0.50 Pesetas Torn or questionable vouchers will not be accepted.) |
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Talamanca is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency fractional pieces — vales or bitllets locals — that flooded Catalonia and the broader Republican zone after July 1936, when the military uprising collapsed normal banking access and small coin effectively vanished from circulation. Agricultural cooperatives were among the most active issuers, partly because they already controlled local food distribution and had the organizational structure to back scrip with something tangible.
The Ferrer Guàrdia name is pointed: Francisco Ferrer Guàrdia was the Catalan anarchist educator executed in 1909, and naming a cooperative after him in 1937 was a deliberate political signal during a period of intense anarcho-syndicalist influence in the Catalan countryside.