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10 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Tonel·leria Mecànica del Penedès
| Issuer | Tonel·leria Mecànica del Penedès (Cooperative Society) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in red on white paper, framed by a dashed-rule perimeter border. The issuer name appears in the upper portion in two lines, separated from the large-format denomination legend "Val per 10 cèts." by a short rule. The date and place of issue are at lower left, with a serial number at lower right and the printer's name at foot centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | TONELERIA MECÁNICA DEL PANADÉS SDAD. COOPERATIVA VILAFRANCA DEL PANADÉS (Translation: Mechanical Cooperage of the Penedès Cooperative Society Vilafranca del Penedès) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives to print their own emergency paper fractionals. This note was issued by a barrel-making cooperative in Vilafranca del Penedès — a town whose economy ran on wine production — and would have circulated almost entirely within that narrow commercial community. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized this kind of local emergency scrip in 1937, giving it a thin legal footing that dissolved when Republican authority in Catalonia did.
Printed by Imprenta Cuscó, a local press. The AL catalog reference places it within the massive Andreu i Llopis corpus documenting Catalan Civil War emergency issues.