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5 Pesetas Barcelona; Unió de Cooperadors; red
| Issuer | Unió de Cooperadors de Barcelona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas (5 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in red on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative geometric border with foliate corner ornaments and a repeated leaf motif along all four edges. The denomination numeral in a boxed vignette occupies the upper left, with the issuer's name in bold display type across the upper field and the value legend in italic script below. A fine guilloche underprint fills the central field, and four manuscript signatures appear at the foot above their respective role labels. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 pts. UNIO DE COOPERADORS DE BARCELONA Bon de CINC PESSETES Serie B a favor de... Barcelona 21 de Novembre del 1937 (Translation: 5 Pesetas Union of Cooperators of Barcelona Bond of Five Pesetas Series B in favor of... Barcelona November 21, 1937) |
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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 Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936 — forced hundreds of municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives across Republican Spain to print their own fractional currency. The cooperative's notes were functionally restricted to members and affiliated outlets, functioning less like circulating money and more like scrip redeemable within a closed commercial network.
Printed locally by Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia., the production quality reflects wartime constraints — offset lithography rather than intaglio, with no security features beyond the issuer's own authority.