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5 Pesetas Vic; Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua, Vic |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 103 x 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour letterpress voucher with a central vignette of a cooperative emblem showing four figures supporting a globe, flanked by rainbow-arc and floral underprint designs in polychrome. Denomination and serial number appear in the lower centre, with the issuer's full name in an arch across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERACIO COOPERATIVA OBRERA PASTISSERIA MUTUA ⸰ VIC ⸰ Moneda Social CINC PESSETES NUMERO 16490 I. G. VILADOT, S. L. - C. O. Barna (Translation: Cooperation Mutual Pastry Worker Cooperative Social Currency Five Pesetas Number 16490) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced thousands of municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives across Catalonia to issue their own emergency paper money — the so-called "moneda de nécessitat." This note from the Cooperativa Obrera Pastisseria Mutua in Vic belongs to that wave. The issuer was a workers' mutual bakery cooperative, which makes this a genuinely unusual piece: scrip backed not by a town council or bank, but by a labor-organized food production enterprise.
Indústries Gràfiques Viladot, Barcelona's prolific printer of Catalan emergency issues, produced enormous volumes of these local notes across the conflict years.