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20 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars
| Issuer | Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars, Vilafranca del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 20 Centimos (0.20 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars Aquesta Associació pagarà al portador la quantitat de vint céntims Vilafranca 1-9-1937 249 (Translation: Association of Hoteliers, Coffee Shop Owners and Similar This Association will pay the bearer the amount of Twenty Centimos Vilafranca, September 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a large circular violet ink stamp applied by hand, containing the Association's name and town in Spanish across the interior of the ring, with two short horizontal rules at centre. |
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One of hundreds of vales de necesidad issued by Catalan trade associations and municipal bodies during the Republican collapse of the peseta's small-denomination coinage in 1936–37. The Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars — a hospitality trade group — stepped in not as a monetary authority but out of sheer commercial necessity: without centimos in circulation, cafés and hotels could not make change. Imprenta Ribas, a local press, produced the notes at the most basic level of printing technology available.
Acceptance was almost certainly limited to member establishments.