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5 Centimos Mataró; Agrupament de la Indústria Flequera
| Issuer | Agrupament de la Indústria Flequera (Mataró) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 64 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue card stock with black letterpress typography. The issuer's name appears at the top in bold type, separated from the town name MATARÓ by double horizontal rules; the denomination legend Val per 5 cèntims is set in large bold type within a ruled panel at centre. A rectangular violet control stamp is applied diagonally across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, the reverse presents the plain blue-grey card stock with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind. |
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One of hundreds of emergency local issues produced across Catalonia during the Civil War, this note was issued not by a municipality but by a trade guild — the bakers' association of Mataró. When the Republican zone experienced acute small-change shortages from 1936 onward, local organizations of all kinds filled the vacuum. A bakery collective issuing its own fractional currency was not unusual by the standards of that moment, but it was not common either.
AL 468 is among the scarcer guild-issued pieces from the Maresme comarca. Most surviving examples show heavy handling — these circulated hard in a working neighborhood economy, not among collectors.