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5 Centimos Cassà de la Selva; Cooperativa Popular La Protectora
| Issuer | Cooperativa Popular La Protectora, Cassà de la Selva |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 58 x 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with letterpress printing in black ink. Two bands of five segmented horizontal rules frame the top and bottom of the face, with the issuer name LA PROTECTORA in bold capitals at centre-top, the large denomination numeral '5 cts.' occupying the centre field, and the locality name CASSÀ DE LA SELVA in spaced capitals below. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper, showing the natural texture and foxing of the wartime stock with no text or design elements. |
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Cassà de la Selva is a small cork-industry town in the Gironès comarca, and La Protectora was one of dozens of Catalan worker cooperatives that began issuing their own fractional currency after July 1936, when the Republican government's monetary infrastructure effectively collapsed at the local level following the Nationalist uprising. These emergency vales — technically redeemable only within the cooperative's own commercial network — filled the near-total void left by the hoarding and disappearance of small-denomination Republican coinage.
AL#1896 places this squarely within the Arxiu de la Localitat series documenting Civil War-era Catalan local issues. Survival rates for these cooperative vales are extremely uneven; many were redeemed and pulped before the war ended, or destroyed after Franco's forces took Girona province in February 1939.