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2 Pesetas Barcelona; Preventori Judicial - Economat
| Issuer | Preventori Judicial de Barcelona - Economat |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on pale blue-green card stock, divided by a vertical rule into two panels. The left panel carries the large-numeral denomination '2'00' in bold black type above 'PESSETES', while the right panel bears the issuing authority name across the top, 'ECONOMAT' heading, a serial number line, issue date, expiry notice, and an applied circular correccionals control stamp in red. |
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| Obverse lettering | PREVENTORI JUDICIAL DE BARCELONA VAL per 2'00 PESSETES ECONOMAT Barcelona, 1 d'Abril 1938 Aquest Val caduca el 30 de juny proper. (Translation: Judicial Prevention of Barcelona Voucher for 2.00 Pesetas Economat Barcelona, April 1, 1938 This Voucher expires on June 30th.) |
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The Preventori Judicial de Barcelona was a detention facility — essentially a holding institution for individuals caught up in the Republican judicial apparatus during the Civil War. Its Economat, an internal supply cooperative, issued its own low-denomination scrip to manage transactions within the institution's closed economy. This note is one of the more obscure examples of Republican-era prisoner or staff cantina currency, a category that saw hundreds of issuers across Catalonia in 1936–38, most producing tiny runs on whatever card stock was available.
Allepuz catalogues it as AL#1367, which places it within the broader Catalan local issues series, but surviving examples are genuinely rare — institutional scrip of this type was discarded or destroyed when the facility closed after Franco's forces took Barcelona in January 1939.