5 Centimos Vilafranca del Penedès; Cooperativa Confederal

During the Spanish Civil War, the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo's collectivization drive across Catalonia produced hundreds of locally issued scrip notes, many intended to function within closed cooperative economies. This note from Vilafranca del Penedès — the Penedès wine capital — was issued by a CNT-affiliated cooperative and printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera, itself a worker-controlled press, making the production chain as ideologically consistent as the currency itself.

The AL#2369 reference places it within Andreu i Llubià's exhaustive Catalan Civil War local issues catalog. Survival rates for these small-denomination scrip pieces are erratic — some communes printed enormous runs, others almost nothing, and wartime destruction, the Republican collapse in 1939, and subsequent Francoist suppression of anarchist materials all thinned the field considerably.