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1 Peseta Barcelona, Cooperativa de Consumo Agrupación Frontones
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Consumo Agrupación Frontones |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#1114 |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA DE CONSUMO AGRUPACIÓN FRONTONES DEPARTAMENTO DE EMISIÓN LA COOPERATIVA ASIGNA A ESTE DOCUMENTO UN VALOR ADQUISITIVO DE UNA PESETA PARA LA COMPRA DE GÉNEROS EN SUS ALMACENES BARCELONA, 30 Septiembre 1937 Nº 005617 TIP `EL SECRETARIAT CATALA` BARNA (Translation: Frontones Group Consumer Cooperative Issue Department The Cooperative assigns this document a value of One Peseta For the purchase of goods in its stores Barcelona, September 30, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 |
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Agrupación Frontones was a workers' consumer cooperative operating in Barcelona during the Republic's wartime collectivization drive. Notes like this one — issued by enterprise-level cooperatives rather than any banking authority — circulated internally as a substitute for coinage, which had vanished almost entirely from Catalonia by mid-1937 due to hoarding and the collapse of normal supply chains.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català printed a considerable volume of this emergency fractional paper for various Barcelona collectives, which accounts for the shared thick-stock paper found across multiple AL-series issues from the same period. The cooperative's own seal authenticated each note in lieu of any formal monetary guarantee.