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1 Peseta Badalona; Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette with radiant sunburst underprint at centre-right, flanked by an anvil and hammer at lower centre and an ear of wheat at right. The issuer's title arcs across the top in bold decorative lettering, with the denomination numeral '1' at lower left and a serial number below. Three manuscript signatures appear above the numeral for the Cashier, President, and Comptroller. |
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| Reverse description | Violet and orange letterpress design centred on a globe held by four hands, symbolising international cooperation, surrounded by geometric guilloche borders. The denomination numeral and legend are printed in bold text above and below the central vignette. |
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The Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona was one of hundreds of Catalan cooperative societies that began issuing local paper scrip after the July 1936 military uprising paralyzed the Spanish banking system and drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. These emergency issues — collectively known as moneda local or paper de guerra — were sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya as a practical stopgap, not a formal monetary program, which meant quality control and redemption guarantees varied enormously from one issuer to the next.
Cooperative-issued scrip from the Badalona area is notably scarcer than municipal issues from the same period, as cooperative societies typically printed smaller runs and kept no centralized archive.