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1 Peseta Talamanca, Cooperativa Agrícola Ferrer Guàrdia
| Issuer | Cooperativa Agrícola Ferrer Guàrdia, Talamanca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | N.º 152 1 Pta. COOPERATIVA AGRÍCOLA FERRER GUÀRDIA TALAMANCA VAL 1 pesseta El Vals estripats o que ofereixin dubtes, no seran admesos. (Translation: Agricultural Cooperative Ferrer Guàrdia It`s worth 1 Peseta Torn or questionable vouchers will not be accepted.) |
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| Reverse lettering | TALAMANCA SINDICAT AGRICOLA DE |
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Talamanca is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and this note is one of hundreds of locally issued emergency scrip pieces produced during the early Civil War period, when Republican-controlled towns faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The cooperative that issued it was named for Francisco Ferrer Guàrdia, the Catalan anarchist educator executed in 1909 — naming a cooperative after him in 1937 was an ideological statement as much as a practical one.
The thick card stock reflects the material constraints of wartime printing. These local emissions were typically rendered worthless within months as Catalan financial authorities attempted to consolidate emergency currency under centralized control.