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5 Pesetas Palamós; Cooperativa Popular L'Equitativa
| Issuer | Cooperativa Popular L'Equitativa (Palamós) |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | A-4680 Cooperativa Popular L'EQUITATIVA PALAMÓS CINC PESSETES PAPER MONEDA SOCIAL DE CURS EXCLUSIVAMENT INTERIOR (Acord pres pel C. D. en data 8 de febrer del 1938) EL PRESIDENT, EL SECRETARI (Translation: People's Cooperative "L'Equitativa". Five pesetas. Social paper currency for exclusive internal circulation. (Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors on February 8, 1938). The President, the Secretary.) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on ocher underprint. A vignette of the Cooperative's building occupies the centre, with the numeral face value repeated in each corner. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across the Republican zone prompted hundreds of local cooperatives, municipalities, and trade unions to issue their own emergency paper currency. Palamós, a small fishing and cork-industry town on the Costa Brava, was no exception. L'Equitativa was a workers' consumer cooperative, and its 5 pessetes note functioned as a local scrip redeemable within its own commercial network — not legal tender in any broader sense.
The thick paper stock is consistent with locally sourced materials common to Catalan emergency issues of 1937–38, when purpose-made banknote paper was simply unavailable to small issuers. AL#2083 is among the scarcer cooperative issues from the Baix Empordà comarca.