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5 Pesetas Barcelona; Preventori Judicial - Economat
| Issuer | Preventori Judicial de Barcelona - Economat |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | PREVENTORI JUDICIAL DE BARCELONA VAL per 5'00 PESSETES ECONOMAT Barcelona, 1 d'Abril 1938 Aquest Val caduca el 30 de juny proper. (Translation: Judicial Prevention of Barcelona Voucher for 5.00 Pesetas Economat Barcelona, April 1, 1938 This Voucher expires on June 30th.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse in plain pink-red card stock, uniform in colour and texture with no markings or design elements. |
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The Preventori Judicial de Barcelona was a detention facility for political prisoners under the Republican administration during the Civil War. Its Economat — an internal commissary — issued scrip for use within the institution, a practice common among Republican-controlled establishments, factories, and collectives that needed to manage internal exchange without drawing on the collapsing national supply of small coinage.
Facility scrip of this type was never intended to leave the building. That any survives at all is largely accidental.