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5 Pesetas Anglès; Cooperativa La Unión Anglesense; round stamp
| Issuer | Cooperativa La Unión Anglesense |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse, with a hand-applied circular ink stamp at right bearing a balance-of-justice vignette at centre, the cooperative name around the upper arc and town name at lower arc. A black typeset serial number appears to the left of the stamp. |
| Reverse lettering | COOPERATIVA UNION ANGLESENSE ANGLES (Translation: Cooperative "Unión Anglesense", Anglès) |
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Anglès is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns, it faced a severe coin shortage during the early months of the Spanish Civil War after metallic currency disappeared from circulation almost immediately following the July 1936 uprising. Local entities — cooperatives, town councils, trade unions — were authorized under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree to issue their own emergency paper and cardboard fractions. The Cooperativa La Unión Anglesense was one such body, issuing scrip redeemable within its own membership network rather than as general municipal currency.
The round stamp validates this as an officially authorized emission from the cooperative itself — a common authentication method when printing infrastructure was limited.