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10 Pesetas Barcelona; Preventori Judicial - Economat
| Issuer | Preventori Judicial de Barcelona - Economat |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 10 Pesetas (10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue card stock with black letterpress text on a plain field, divided by a vertical rule into two panels. The large numeral '10' occupies the lower left, with 'VAL per' above and 'PESSETES' below; 'ECONOMAT' appears upper right. A circular administrative stamp in violet ink is applied across the centre, with a handwritten serial number to its right. |
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| Obverse lettering | PREVENTORI JUDICIAL DE BARCELONA VAL per 10 PESSETES ECONOMAT Barcelona, 1 d'Abril 1938 Aquest Val caduca el 30 de juny proper. (Translation: Judicial Prevention of Barcelona Voucher for 10 Pesetas Economat Barcelona, April 1, 1938 This Voucher expires on June 30th.) |
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The Preventori Judicial de Barcelona was the institution responsible for holding individuals awaiting trial under the Republican justice system during the Civil War. Its Economat — an internal canteen or commissary — issued small-denomination vouchers for use exclusively within the facility, which is why these pieces circulate almost exclusively among specialists in Spanish Civil War locales rather than mainstream peseta collectors. Thick blue card stock was the material of choice for many Catalan institutional issues of 1938, practical and harder to counterfeit than thin paper.
By mid-1938, Barcelona was under severe economic strain, and institutional scrip of this kind filled gaps left by the near-total collapse of small-change supply.