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2 Pesetas Gavà; La Sociedad General de Hules, E. C.
| Issuer | La Sociedad General de Hules, E. C. (Gavà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress on white paper with red serial number. Central text block carries the issuer name and payment obligation, with the face value in each corner and a crowned coat of arms set against a guilloche-striped underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 PTS. La SOCIEDAD GENERAL DE HULES, E. C. PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR DOS PESETAS Gavá, 19 de Mayo de 1937 0674 (Translation: The General Rubber Company, Collectivized Enterprise. Will pay the bearer Two Pesetas. Gavá, May 19, 1937.) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities and private enterprises to issue their own emergency scrip. La Sociedad General de Hules was a rubber and oilcloth manufacturing company based in Gavà, a small industrial town south of Barcelona. That a factory issued its own 2-peseta notes to pay workers and facilitate local transactions was entirely unremarkable at the time — by 1937, the Generalitat de Catalunya had effectively sanctioned this practice out of necessity.
The AL# reference places this within Andreu/Llach's catalog of Catalan civil war emergency issues, a series where surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon given the ephemeral nature of factory scrip.