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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 lettering | 5 COOPERATIVA LA ECONOMICA CENTELLAS 5 pts 311 EL PRESIDENTE EL CAJERO (Translation: Cooperative "La Economica". 5 Pesetas. The President. The Cashier.) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on pink paper with a wavy-line guilloche outer border and nested rectangular frames. A central diamond-shaped panel with crosshatch underprint carries the date and denomination text; small floral sprigs at left and right. Denomination numeral "5" in circles at left and lower-right corners. |
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Spanish cooperative emergency currency of this type falls under the broader category of moneda de empresa — scrip issued by a company or cooperative for internal circulation among its members or workforce. By 1958, Franco's Spain had largely suppressed the chaotic wartime and postwar local currency issues, making a cooperative still circulating its own scrip at that date genuinely unusual. Whether this represents an oversight by authorities or a tolerated local arrangement in a small Catalan town is not documented in the standard references.
Centellas — now officially Cintelles — is a small municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia. AL#2910 places this in Alquiza's census of Spanish local issues, but catalogue detail on this specific piece remains thin.