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5 Pesetas Barcelona; Unió de Cooperadors; green
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#1080 |
| Obverse description | Green letterpress on cream paper with a decorative foliate and geometric border running the full perimeter. The denomination numeral '5 pts.' appears in a circular cartouche at upper left, with the issuer's name in bold block letters across the upper field. A faint 'BARCELONA' underprint is visible in the centre, flanked by a lined serial number panel. Date, series letter, and four manuscript signatures with printed role titles occupy the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 pts. UNIO DE COOPERADORS DE BARCELONA Bon de CINC PESSETES Serie C a favor de... Barcelona 21 de Novembre del 1937 CAIXER PRESIDENT PRESIDENT D'HISENDA INTERVENTOR MARTI, MARÍ Y Cía. BARCELONA |
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The Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona was a consumer cooperative federation with deep roots in the Catalan labor movement. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coin circulation — driven by hoarding and the breakdown of central authority — forced hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and trade unions across the Republican zone to issue their own emergency fractional currency. This note is one product of that crisis.
Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. handled a notable volume of this wartime scrip work in Barcelona, printing for multiple issuers simultaneously. The cooperative context matters: these notes functioned as internal purchasing certificates as much as general circulating currency, redeemable within the cooperative's own network of shops.