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10 Pesetas Badalona; Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 100 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on light ground with radiating sun-ray underprint at centre. Left oval cartouche encloses a vignette of an anvil with hammer and ears of wheat. Three facsimile signature lines for El Caixer, El President, and L'Interventor appear across the lower centre, with a stamped serial number below. |
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| Reverse description | Brown-red and ochre two-colour letterpress on dotted underprint. Central vignette shows a terrestrial globe supported by four upraised hands, with the word COOPERACIÓ inscribed across its face. Large numeral 10 flanks the globe on each side, and a foliate scroll banner at the foot carries the denomination in full. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of the Republican monetary supply — driven by hoarding of coin and the collapse of normal banking — forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities and organizations to issue their own emergency paper. The Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona, a workers' cooperative rather than a municipal authority, was among the non-governmental bodies that stepped in. Cooperative-issued notes occupy an unusual legal grey zone in the emergency currency literature: they carried no formal state backing whatsoever, circulating purely on institutional trust within a local membership.
Badalona's cooperative issues are catalogued under Gari's regional monograph, which remains the primary reference for this material and is not widely held outside specialist collections.