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1 Peseta Torrevieja, Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos
| Issuer | Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos de Torrevieja |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 103 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in black on cream paper, enclosed within a geometric frame composed of repeated square ornamental units running along all four margins. The text field carries the issuing society's full name, the denomination expressed in words, and the place and date of issue, with space below for a manuscript serial number and the President's handwritten signature in blue ink. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper, otherwise blank, bearing a single circular rubber control stamp applied in violet ink, offset toward the upper portion of the note. The stamp has a serrated outer border, carries the legend of the issuing society around its circumference, and displays the trade-union initials U.G.T. at centre. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held territory forced trade unions, mutual aid societies, and local businesses to issue their own emergency scrip. The Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos — a hospitality workers' union in Torrevieja, a small salt-industry town on the Alicante coast — was one of hundreds of such bodies that stepped in to fill the gap. These notes functioned purely within the local economy, accepted by member establishments and theoretically redeemable, though redemption became academic as the war progressed.
Torrevieja's isolation and modest economy meant production runs were small. The Gari catalogue documents several variants for this issuer, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.