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5 Centimos La Casa del Pueblo
| Issuer | La Casa del Pueblo, Martorrell |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress border with diagonal hatching surrounds the note. A ribbon banner at top carries the issuer name, flanked by the UGT legend at left and the year 1936 at right. At centre, an actual Spanish Republic 5 Céntimos postage stamp is affixed as the denomination vignette, with the numeral 5 in large bold lettering to the right. Issuing locality inscribed at bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA CASA DEL PUEBLO U.G.T. 1936 5 CÉNTIMOS MARTORRELL BARCELONA |
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La Casa del Pueblo was a Socialist workers' club, and in the anarchic early months of the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of such local organizations across Republican-held Catalonia issued their own small-denomination emergency notes — céntimos coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down. Martorrell, a small town on the Llobregat river southwest of Barcelona, was typical of communities forced into this improvised monetary arrangement.
These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever printing equipment the town possessed. Survival rates are low not through destruction but through simple loss — notes of five céntimos weren't worth saving.