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25 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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| Size | 63 × 34 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in dark brown letterpress throughout. The issuing entity name appears within a ruled rectangular frame at upper left, with a dotted-border Series D designation at upper right. The denomination 'Vale por 25 cents.' is set in large bold type across the centre, below which the place and date of issue 'Torrevieja, Diciembre, 1937' are printed, with a handwritten serial number at lower left and the title 'El Presidente' at lower right accompanied by a circular violet validation stamp. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos Serie D Vale por 25 cents. TORREVIEJA, DICIEMBRE, 1937 Num. El Presidente (Translation: Society of Waiters, Hoteliers, and Related Businesses Series D Voucher for 25 Centimos Torrevieja, December, 1937 No. The President) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination Republican coinage prompted hundreds of local organizations — trade unions, municipal governments, cooperatives — to issue their own emergency scrip. This piece comes from the waiters' and hoteliers' union in Torrevieja, a small salt-industry town on the Alicante coast. That a hospitality workers' collective was producing fiduciary instruments tells you something about the administrative collapse of 1937.
The stamp constitutes the primary authentication mechanism — typical for union-issued local scrip of this period, where engraved security printing was simply not available.