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5 Kilos of bread Torrebesses; Panaderia de José Torrebadella
| Issuer | Panaderia de José Torrebadella |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | PANADERIA DE JOSE TORREBADELLA TORREBESES Vale por 5 Kilos de pan (Translation: José Torrebadella's Bakery, Torrebeses. Voucher for 5 kilos of bread.) |
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| Reverse lettering | PANADERIA DE José Torrebadella TORREBESES (Translation: José Torrebadella's Bakery, Torrebeses.) |
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A bread ration voucher, not a banknote in any conventional sense — but these small-denomination commodity notes issued by Spanish bakeries during the 1930s civil war period occupy a legitimate corner of notaphily precisely because they functioned as local currency when coinage disappeared from circulation entirely. The Republican zone experienced acute small-change shortages from 1936 onward, forcing municipalities, cooperatives, shopkeepers, and tradesmen to print their own exchange media.
The Torrebadella bakery voucher entitles the bearer to five kilos of bread rather than a monetary sum — commodity scrip rather than fiduciary money, which makes it rarer in surviving collections than its coin-substitute counterparts.