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1 Kilogram of lentils Rubí, Spain
| Issuer | Falange Española, Rubí |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Size | 104 x 57 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 19 40 CUPON de racionamiento VALE POR UN KILO DE LENTEJAS RUBÍ - BARCELONA FALANGE ESPAÑOLA ARRIBA ESPAÑA (Translation: Ration coupon Valid for one kilo of lentils Up with Spain) |
| Reverse description | Black line-engraved vignette of a civic building with a prominent clock face, a bell tower rising behind it, and an ornamental street lamp to the right, all enclosed within a blue rectangular border rule. |
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Emergency food vouchers issued by local Falange committees were common across Catalonia in the immediate post-Civil War years, as the Francoist rationing system struggled to impose order on a devastated supply chain. This specific piece from Rubí — a small industrial town in the Vallès Occidental — represents the hyper-local tier of that apparatus, where party cells functioned as de facto distribution points for staple goods rather than currency.
Lentils were among the few protein sources consistently available in the early 1940s rationing ledgers, earning the period the sardonic Catalan nickname "els anys de la gana" — the hunger years. A voucher denominated in weight rather than monetary value tells you something about how thoroughly the price mechanism had broken down by 1940.