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5 Pesetas Viladecans; Cooperativa Obrera La Igualtat
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera La Igualtat de Viladecans |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress on cream paper with large guilloche-style numeral '5' vignettes at left and right, framed by geometric corner ornaments. Central text block carries the issuer name in bold display type above the denomination 'PESSETES', with date 1 April 1938 and three manuscript signature lines for El Caixer, L'Interventor, and El President. |
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| Reverse description | Dark brown letterpress on cream paper with a central circular emblem of the Cooperative, flanked by a rural scene of a couple of farmers with a baby in arms and a house in the background. The serial number and denomination 'CINC PESSETES' are printed in bold type above and below the central vignette. |
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Viladecans is a small municipality south of Barcelona, and by 1938 the Republican zone was hemorrhaging hard currency — coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. Worker cooperatives across Catalonia stepped into the gap, printing their own vales and tokens redeemable within their own networks. La Igualtat — "Equality" — was one such cooperative, and this 5 peseta note functioned as internal scrip rather than legal tender, accepted at cooperative stores and services but worthless outside that circle.
Alsina-Lloreda catalog reference 744 places it within a well-documented but genuinely scarce category: Catalan Civil War-era cooperative emergency issues, most of which were printed in tiny runs and saw heavy use before the Nationalist takeover in early 1939 ended their validity overnight.