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20 Céntimos Torrevieja, Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos
| Issuer | Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos de Torrevieja |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1470-A |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank verso printed on white card stock, carrying a single circular violet validation stamp of the issuing society. The stamp reads the society's name around its circumference and bears a central device, serving as the principal authentication mark for the voucher. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink validation stamp applied to the reverse, bearing the name of the issuing society around its circumference and a central device. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of the national coin supply pushed hundreds of local entities — trade unions, municipalities, cooperatives — into improvised currency production. This note was issued by the Torrevieja branch of the hospitality workers' union, a body representing waiters, hotel staff, and related trades. That a labour union in a small coastal salt-town was printing its own fractional currency speaks directly to how completely the monetary infrastructure had collapsed in Republican-held territory by mid-1937.
The thick card stock was typical of hasty local issues where engraved printing was unavailable. A stamped security feature was the only authentication measure — easily forged, but rarely worth the effort at 20 céntimos.