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5 Centimos Guíxols; Bacallaneria J. Busquet
| Issuer | Bacallaneria J. Busquet (Guíxols) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white stock with all text typeset in blue ink by letterpress. The issuer name and locality appear at upper right, with the proprietor name underlined; the denomination numeral and unit are set in large type at left. A serial number in blue appears at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, plain white paper stock with no design, text, or security elements. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small coinage circulation prompted hundreds of Catalan businesses and municipalities to issue their own emergency fractional currency. Bacallaneria J. Busquet — a cod and salt-fish merchant in Sant Feliu de Guíxols — was among the tradespeople who filled that gap locally. These notes functioned as change tokens redeemable only within the issuing establishment, not as broadly circulating currency.
At 43 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest paper emissions of the conflict. The Arxiu Local census reference AL#2032 confirms its catalogued status, though surviving examples are rarely encountered — most perished in daily handling or were discarded once the war ended and peseta coinage returned.