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50 Céntimos Los Cortijos
| Issuer | Cooperativa Obrera Los Cortijos |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on coarse card stock, with the issuer name 'COOPERATIVA OBRERA LOS CORTIJOS' in bold uppercase letters at the top, followed by 'BARRIO DE ABAJO' underlined by a horizontal rule. The denomination 'Vale por 50 cts.' is centered in the middle field, with the date 'Junio, 1937' and a serial number at the foot. A purple rubber stamp impression is visible as a validation mark across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | COOPERATIVA OBRERA LOS CORTIJOS BARRIO DE ABAJO Vale por 50 cts. Junio, 1937. (Translation: Workers Cooperative Los Cortijos Barrio de Abajo Voucher for 50 Centimos June, 1937.) |
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Spanish Civil War scrip from the Cooperativa Obrera Los Cortijos — a workers' cooperative operating in the Republican zone during the conflict. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37, caused by hoarding and monetary disruption, forced hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and unions across Republican Spain to issue their own emergency notes. This piece is one of those locally produced stopgaps.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference is incomplete, suggesting the issuer was either poorly documented or that surviving examples are few enough to frustrate systematic cataloguing. Either way, cooperative-issued scrip from rural or semi-rural Spanish producers remains among the harder material to trace.