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10 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Cooperativa Vilafranquina de Flequers
| Issuer | Cooperativa Vilafranquina de Flequers |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#2376 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper ground bearing a hand-applied oval rubber stamp in violet ink with a serrated outer rim. The stamp carries the cooperative's name and town name across two registers, separated by a small ornamental dash device. |
| Reverse lettering | COOPERATIVA VILAFRANQUINA DE FLEQUERS VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDÈS (Translation: Vilafranquina Bakers Cooperative Vilafranca del Penedès) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation by mid-1936. Catalonia responded with a flood of locally issued paper fractional currency, and this note is among the more unusual examples: produced not by a municipality but by a bakers' cooperative. The Cooperativa Vilafranquina de Flequers issued these 10 céntimos notes presumably to facilitate purchases among members and customers when change was simply unavailable.
Printed by Imprenta Ribas, a local press in the same town, the whole operation was entirely self-contained within Vilafranca del Penedès. That locality makes surviving examples genuinely parochial — circulation would have been narrow and brief.