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5 Céntimos La Bisbal d`Empordà, Merceria J. Regás
| Issuer | Merceria J. Regás, La Bisbal d`Empordà |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#2021 |
| Obverse description | Plain light-toned card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer name "Merceria J. Regás" is set in large bold type at the top centre, with "LA BISBAL" in smaller capitals beneath, separated by a short rule. A serial number appears at lower left, while the denomination "VAL 5 Cts." is displayed in bold at lower right. The entire face is framed by a dotted rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted, with the plain light-toned card stock exposed and showing no text, vignette, or border of any kind. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small coinage circulation prompted thousands of municipalities, shops, and cooperatives across Catalonia to issue their own fractional paper — these so-called *vals* or *moneda de necessitat* filled a genuine transactional void. Merceria J. Regás was a haberdashery, and its scrip was accepted locally as change within the shop's commercial network. The AL (Associació de Col·leccionistes de Bitllets) reference places it firmly within the documented Catalan emergency issues, though survival rates for small-denomination commercial scrip from this period are highly uneven — many were redeemed and destroyed, others simply lost.