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5 Centimos Parets del Vallès; Cooperativa Obrera La Progresiva
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera La Progresiva, Parets del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange-yellow voucher with a plain double-rule border frame. The issuer name runs vertically along both side margins in black letterpress, with the face value VAL / 5 / CENTIMS printed in large bold type at centre. Serial number prefixed Núm. appears at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA OBRERA - « LA PROGRESIVA » - PARETS DEL VALLÈS VAL 5 CENTIMS Núm. 8126 (Translation: Workers' Cooperative It's worth 5 Centimos) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-controlled Catalonia forced hundreds of local organizations — trade unions, municipal councils, consumer cooperatives — to print their own emergency scrip. La Progresiva was a workers' cooperative, and its token currency would have circulated only among members and within the immediate local economy of Parets del Vallès, a small industrial town in the Vallès Oriental comarca north of Barcelona.
The cataloguing under both Gari Mon and the Allepuz series reflects the sheer volume of Catalan civil war local issues — documentation took decades and remains incomplete in places. At 44 by 39 millimeters, this is among the smallest-format issues of the entire Republican emergency scrip phenomenon.