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25 Céntimos Cuenca, Colectividad Gastronómica
| Issuer | Colectividad Gastronómica U.G.T. - C.N.T., Cuenca |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| In circulation to | 1939 |
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| Obverse description | Typeset voucher printed in black on plain cream paper, with a serial number in the upper portion above a rectangular border composed of dotted geometric patterns forming nested frames. The issuer name 'Colectividad Gastronómica' appears at the top within the border, flanked on the left by the union initials 'U.G.T.' and 'C.N.T.' and on the right by the place name 'Cuenca'. The denomination 'Vale por veinticinco céntimos' is set centrally in bold letterpress type within the inner frame, with a circular control stamp visible at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Núm. 7472 Colectividad Gastronómica U. G. T. C. N. T. Vale por veinticinco céntimos Cuenca (Translation: Gastronomic Community / General Union of Workers / National Confederation of Labor / Voucher for Twenty-five Centimos / Cuenca) |
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One of hundreds of locally issued vouchers that proliferated across Republican Spain after the July 1936 military uprising froze normal economic life. When coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in smaller towns — collectives, unions, and municipalities printed their own scrip to keep local commerce moving. This note comes from the gastronomic workers' collective in Cuenca, jointly organized under the UGT and CNT, the two major and frequently rival labor federations whose wartime cooperation was itself remarkable.
Cuenca remained under Republican control until nearly the end of the war, falling to Nationalist forces in March 1939. Very few of these fractional vouchers survived — they were ephemeral by design, printed on thin stock for immediate transactional use.