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1 Peseta Viladecans; Cooperativa Obrera La Igualtat
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera La Igualtat de Viladecans |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Orange-red letterpress print on cream paper. A circular vignette at centre displays the cooperative's emblem, within which a farming couple with an infant in arms stands before a rural house. The denomination and cooperative name are inscribed around the central device, with a serial number in the lower field. |
| Reverse lettering | COOPERATIVA OBRERA "LA IGUALTAT" - VILADECANS - A 3197 UNA PESSETA (Translation: Workers' Cooperative "La Igualtat" One Peseta) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total breakdown of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. Hundreds of local entities across Catalonia responded by issuing their own emergency paper, and Viladecans was no exception. La Igualtat ("Equality") was a workers' cooperative, and its decision to back local scrip reflected both practical necessity and the collectivist structures that briefly governed much of Republican Catalonia in 1936–38.
Alvaro Calicó's *Billetes Locales* catalogues this emission under AL#743. Survival rates for Viladecans municipal and cooperative issues are generally poor — small runs, heavy local circulation, and wartime disruption saw most examples destroyed or lost before 1939.