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10 Pesetas Igualada; Cooperativa Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Cooperativa Unió de Cooperadors, Igualada |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 PESSETES COOPERATIVA UNIÓ DE COOPERADORS IGUALADA PAPER MONEDA SOCIAL DE CURS INTERIOR 1 DE GENER DEL 1938 (Translation: 10 Pesetas Cooperative Union of Cooperators Igualada Domestic social currency paper January 1, 1938) |
| Reverse description | Polychrome letterpress composition centred on the large numeral face value, enclosed within a decorative border. Flanking cornucopias overflowing with fruit serve as the principal ornamental elements, with the series designation printed below. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities and cooperatives to print their own emergency paper. The Cooperativa Unió de Cooperadors in Igualada was one of them — a consumer cooperative issuing scrip redeemable within its own commercial network rather than through any banking authority. These notes functioned as internal currency, accepted by member businesses but worthless outside that closed economy.
Printed locally by Imprenta Bas, the production is modest by any standard. Igualada's cooperative movement was well-organized by 1938, but the war's final year brought acute shortages of everything, including quality printing materials.