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5 Pesetas Badalona; Unió de Cooperadors
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 85 x 63 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | UNIÓ DE COOPERADORS DE BADALONA PAPER MONEDA SOCIAL DE CURS INTERIOR 5 PESSETES El Caixer El President L'Interventor (Translation: Badalona Cooperators Union Domestic social paper money 5 Pesetas The Cashier The President The Comptroller) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 COOPERACIÓ CINC PESSETES (Translation: Cooperation Five Pesetas) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. Hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across Catalonia responded by printing their own emergency fractional currency, and the Unió de Cooperadors de Badalona was among them. These cooperative-issued notes circulated within a tightly bounded local economy and were effectively worthless outside the issuing organization's sphere.
Badalona's cooperative series is catalogued under both Gari and the Associació de Lletres series, which alone speaks to how thoroughly documented Catalan Civil War local issues have become — this is well-trodden ground for specialists in Guerra Civil paper.