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5 Centimos Tàrrega; Cooperativa Obrera Industrial Flequera
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera Industrial Flequera |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA OBRERA INDUSTRIAL FLEQUERA TÀRREGA Val per 5 Céntims (Translation: Industrial Bakery Workers' Cooperative Voucher for 5 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse with no text or design elements, showing natural aging and surface toning consistent with the Civil War period. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage — hoarded almost immediately after July 1936 — forced hundreds of Catalan cooperatives, municipalities, and trade organizations to print their own emergency fractional scrip. The Cooperativa Obrera Industrial Flequera was a workers' bakery cooperative in Tàrrega, a small agricultural town in the Urgell comarca of Lleida province. That a bread cooperative was issuing its own currency is less surprising than it sounds; in Republican Catalonia at this moment, collectives of all kinds assumed quasi-municipal functions almost overnight.
The format is exceptionally small even by the compressed standards of Civil War vales, and paper this thin rarely survives without creasing or edge loss.