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10 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Cooperativa Confederal
| Issuer | Cooperativa Confederal (C.N.T.), Vilafranca del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream ground with all text letterpress-printed in blue. The issuer name 'Cooperativa Confederal' appears in bold at top, flanked above and below by thin horizontal rules. Below the upper rule, 'C.N.T.' is set to the left alongside a solid blue rhombus device, with a stamped serial number to the right. The date 'VILAFRANCA, 1 D'OCTUBRE 1937' runs along the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa Confederal C. N. T. VILAFRANCA, 1 D' OCTUBRE 1937 (Translation: Confederal Cooperative Vilafranca, October 1, 1937) |
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Vilafranca del Penedès, like dozens of Catalan towns in 1937, issued its own fractional scrip after the Republic's small coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in a war economy. This note was issued by the Confederal Cooperative tied to the CNT, the anarcho-syndicalist union that controlled significant industrial and agricultural output across Catalonia during the early war years. The printer, Imprenta Unió Obrera — Workers' Union Press — was itself a collectivized operation, which makes the production chain here unusually coherent ideologically.
AL#2371 places it within the Amadeu Llorens census of Catalan civil war emergency issues, the primary reference for a series running into the thousands of distinct local pieces.