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30 Centimos Figueres; Gremi de Cafès i Bars
| Issuer | Gremi de Cafès i Bars de Figueres |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 30 Centimos (0.30 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | GREMI DE CAFÈS I BARS FIGUERES Octubre 1937 VAL per 30 cèntims Nº 2600 (Translation: Guild of Cafes and Bars October 1937 Voucher for 30 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed reverse in dark blue ink on cream paper. A double-rule rectangular border frames a columnar list of member establishments where the voucher was valid, headed by a bold title legend and closed at the foot by an expiry notice. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the breakdown of small-denomination coinage drove hundreds of Catalan municipalities and local trade guilds to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Gremi de Cafès i Bars — the café and bar guild of Figueres — was among the more specific issuers: not a municipal council or workers' cooperative, but a single sectoral trade association issuing scrip redeemable within its own member establishments.
Figueres, as the capital of the Alt Empordà comarca and a Republican stronghold close to the French border, remained under Republican control until early February 1939. Guild-issued notes like this one circulated alongside official Republican emisiones, tolerated out of necessity rather than any formal monetary authority.