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1 Peseta Barcelona; Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 95 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | UNIO DE COOPERADORS DE BARCELONA PAPER MONEDA SOCIAL DE CURS INTERIOR 14 DE SETEMBRE DEL 1936 1 PESSETA (Translation: Union of Cooperators of Barcelona Local social paper money September 14, 1936 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of two agricultural workers harvesting wheat with sickles, flanked below by two cornucopias overflowing with fruit. The design is set within a decorative frame with denomination inscribed in Catalan. |
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Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona was a workers' cooperative federation, and this note belongs to the wave of emergency fractional currency — moneda de necessitat — that flooded Catalonia in the summer of 1936 after the military uprising triggered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation. Republican-aligned municipalities, cooperatives, trade unions, and commercial associations all issued their own scrip, some with legal backing, most without.
Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. handled a notable volume of this local emergency printing in Barcelona. The cooperative context matters: Unió de Cooperadors operated retail outlets across the city, and their scrip likely circulated primarily among members and in cooperative shops rather than as general-purpose currency.