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5 Pesetas Centellas; Cooperativa La Económica
| Issuer | Cooperativa La Económica, Centellas |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on pale paper with a bold guilloche border of repeating chevron motifs. The large numeral "5" appears at left and lower right, with the cooperative name and town name in block lettering. Two manuscript signatures appear below the titles EL PRESIDENTE and EL CAJERO, with a serial number at right. |
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| Reverse description | Red letterpress on pale paper with a scalloped outer border and inner rectangular frame enclosing a central diamond-shaped vignette with crosshatch underprint. Floral sprigs flank the central panel at left and right, with the denomination and issuer inscribed within the diamond. The date "Junio 1958" appears at the top of the vignette. |
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Spanish civil war-era cooperatives and municipal issuers are well documented, but this 1958 note from Centellas — a small town in the Barcelona province — belongs to a much later and quieter phenomenon: the persistence of local scrip well into the Franco dictatorship. By the late 1950s such issues were technically illegal under centralized monetary regulations, which makes the survival of this piece from Cooperativa La Económica genuinely puzzling. Whether it circulated openly or functioned as an internal store credit is unclear from surviving records.
Catalan cooperative scrip from this period is poorly catalogued. AL#2909 is a rare reference point.