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25 Centimos Barcelona; Vil·la de Salut L'Aliança
| Issuer | Vil·la de Salut L'Aliança, Barcelona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on blue underprint with matching geometric guilloche border and corner ornaments. Guarantee text in Catalan occupies the central panel, dated Barcelona 1 December 1937, with two manuscript signatures for Treasurer and President below; printer's imprint at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 CÈNTIMS AQUESTA EMISSIÓ DE BITLLETS ESTÀ GARANTIDA AMB LA QUANTITAT DIPOSITADA EN AQUESTA DATA A LA CAIXA DE LA INSTITUCIÓ. BARCELONA, 1r DE DESEMBRE 1937 TRESORER PRESIDENT TIP. EMPORIUM - BARCELONA (Translation: 25 Centimos. This issue of notes is guaranteed by the amount deposited on this date in the institution's cash register. Barcelona, December 1, 1937. Treasurer, President.) |
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Vil·la de Salut L'Aliança was a mutual aid society in Barcelona's Gràcia district, and like dozens of similar organizations during the early months of the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when the Republic's small change effectively disappeared from circulation. The coin shortage of 1936–37 was severe enough that hospitals, cooperatives, and worker societies became de facto issuers — a chaotic but functional stopgap that Republican authorities eventually moved to suppress and standardize.
Tipografia Emporium was a working Barcelona press, not a security printer. These notes were never meant to outlast the war.