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10 Kilos of bread Torrebesses; Panaderia de José Torrebadella
| Issuer | Panaderia de José Torrebadella, Torrebeses |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink card stock with a simple letterpress double-rule rectangular border. The issuer name and locality are set in bold uppercase type in the upper half, separated from the lower denomination statement by a horizontal rule. The value inscription is rendered in a larger italic typeface. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock, otherwise blank, bearing a single applied oval rubber stamp in violet-blue ink at centre, carrying the issuer's name and locality in three lines within a beaded oval border. |
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Torrebesses is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like dozens of Catalan villages during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency scrip when coins vanished from circulation almost overnight after July 1936. This note — redeemable not in pesetas but in ten kilos of bread — was issued directly by the local bakery, José Torrebadella's panaderia. Commodity-backed scrip of this kind was a practical response to hoarding and supply uncertainty; bread was more dependable than currency.
It is catalogued in the Albertí reference for Catalan Civil War local issues.