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1 Peseta Vic; Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua, Vic |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#3064 |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERACIO COOPERATIVA OBRERA PASTISSERIA MUTUA ⸰ VIC ⸰ Moneda Social UNA PESSETA NUMERO I. G. VILADOT, S. L. - C. O. Barna (Translation: Cooperation Mutual Pastry Worker Cooperative Social Currency One Peseta Number) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour voucher with a central vignette of two clasped hands within an oval cartouche framed by two olive branches. Denomination numerals appear in circular medallions at lower left and upper right corners, with issuer abbreviation and place name in bold lettering. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — metal had vanished into hoarding and wartime requisition. Hundreds of local bodies, cooperatives, and municipal councils responded by issuing their own paper emergency currency, known as *moneda de necessitat*. This note from the Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua in Vic belongs to that sprawling, decentralized monetary improvisation: a bakery workers' cooperative producing its own peseta scrip.
Indústries Gràfiques Viladot handled a significant volume of this emergency material out of Barcelona. The issuing cooperative's narrow trade base — pastry and bakery workers — means surviving examples turn up rarely outside Osona regional collections.