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| Issuer | Cooperativa de Consum - C.N.T. (Cervera) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream card stock, the entire design is composed of a large letterpress triangle bordered by a double rule. The issuer's name curves along the three sides of the triangle, with the denomination legend ABONO 10 CTS. set in bold type at the centre, flanked by horizontal rules. CERVERA appears below the triangle base. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain cream card stock with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Cervera's CNT-affiliated consumer cooperative issued these small-denomination emergency vouchers during the Civil War period, when the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization of commerce left ordinary coin change effectively nonexistent across much of Catalonia. The CNT's takeover of local retail and distribution networks meant that cooperative scrip like this functioned as the de facto transactional medium for everyday purchases — bread, oil, basic goods — rather than any state-issued currency.
AL#3295 places this among the thousands of locally documented Catalan guerra civil vales, but Cervera-issued pieces appear infrequently on the market.