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20 Centimos La Casa del Pueblo
| Issuer | La Casa del Pueblo, Martorell (U.G.T.) |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Hand-drawn voucher in blue and black on plain paper, enclosed in a dashed rectangular border. A banner at top centre bears the issuer name in script lettering; the denomination numeral appears in a circle at left. Two affixed Spanish Republic postage stamps (25 céntimos and 15 céntimos) serve as the nominal backing, with the locality and date inscribed at lower left and upper right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a central vignette within an ornate purple-toned rectangular frame with decorative corner and mid-border flourishes. The vignette depicts a reclining female figure in period dress rendered in a loose illustrative style with ochre wash background. |
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During the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage in Republican-held territory forced hundreds of local entities — trade unions, municipal councils, cooperatives — to print their own emergency scrip. La Casa del Pueblo in Martorell was the local seat of the UGT, the socialist trade union federation, and its issue of 20 céntimos was purely functional: something to make change when the peseta system had effectively seized up at the small end.
These hyper-local Catalan wartime issues were produced in tiny runs, often on whatever paper and printing equipment was at hand. Survival rates vary wildly, and many types are known from fewer than a handful of examples.