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1 Peseta Barcelona; Preventori Judicial - Economat
| Issuer | Preventori Judicial de Barcelona - Economat |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-red card stock with black and red letterpress text within a thin rectangular border. The issuer name appears across the top, with 'ECONOMAT' at left and the large denomination numeral '1'00' at centre-right. A black circular control stamp is applied at lower left, with the issue date and expiry clause in small text along the bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain pink-red card stock; no text or design elements present. |
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The Preventori Judicial in Barcelona was the detention facility for individuals awaiting trial under the Republican judiciary during the Civil War. Its Economat — an internal canteen or commissary — issued this token note so that detainees and staff could make purchases within the institution without handling official currency. These hyper-local emissions were a practical response to the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the Republican zone from 1937 onward, when hoarding and monetary instability stripped coins almost entirely from everyday transactions.
The AL#1371 reference places it within Andreu/Llorens's extensive census of Catalan Civil War emergency issues. Attrition was high — few had any reason to preserve commissary scrip after 1939.