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10 Centimos Barcelona; Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | UNIO DE COOPERADORS DE BARCELONA PAPER MONEDA SOCIAL DE CURS INTERIOR 14 DE SETEMBRE DEL 1936 10 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Union of Cooperators of Barcelona Local social paper money September 14, 1936 10 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 CÈNTIMS DEU CÈNTIMS (Translation: 10 Centimos Ten Centimos) |
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The Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona was a consumer cooperative network with deep roots in the Catalan labour movement. When the military uprising of July 1936 triggered a revolutionary seizure of much of Barcelona's economy, the subsequent flight of coin from circulation forced hundreds of municipalities, unions, businesses, and cooperatives to issue their own fractional emergency currency — the so-called "moneda de necessitat." This note is one of thousands of such issues, but the cooperative origin is worth noting: the Unió was not a makeshift wartime body scrambling for legitimacy, it was an established institution pressed into an extraordinary monetary role.
Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. handled production locally, as with many of these emergency pieces.