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5 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars
| Issuer | Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars, Vilafranca del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on plain off-white card stock, with a border of fine vertical dash rules running along all four edges. The issuer name appears in two lines of bold red serif type across the upper portion, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule. Below, a three-line promise-to-pay legend in red leads to the denomination 'cinc cèntims' in large bold display type. The date 'Vilafranca 1-9-1937' and a black typeset serial number appear at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | ASOCIACION de HOTELEROS CAFETEROS y sus SIMILARES DE VILLAFRANCA del PANADÉS (Translation: Association of Hoteliers, Coffee Shop Owners and Similar of Vilafranca del Penedès) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency issues produced across Catalonia during the Civil War, when Republican authorities authorized local trade guilds and civic associations to print their own fractional currency to address the acute shortage of small change. The Associació d'Hotelers, Cafeters i similars — the local hospitality and catering trade association — was an unconventional issuer even by the loose standards of the period; most comparable notes came from municipalities or cooperatives, not sector-specific guilds.
Imprenta Ribas was a local commercial printer, and the square format reflects the cost-cutting informality of the whole emergency series rather than any design intention.