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50 Centimos Torredembarra; Tocineria i Queviures Casa Sanabre
| Issuer | Casa Sanabre, Torredembarra |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher on cream paper in black ink, enclosed within a triple-rule rectangular border with rounded corner ornaments. The issuer name appears in two lines at top, with the trade name in bold capitals flanked by solid triangular pointing hands; a double rule separates the denomination statement below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Tocineria i Queviures CASA SANABRE TORREDEMBARRA Val per 50 Cèntims (Translation: Butcher shop and groceries Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Casa Sanabre was a pork butcher and general provisions shop — "tocineria i queviures" — in Torredembarra, a small coastal town in Tarragona. Like hundreds of Catalan commercial enterprises during the Civil War years, it issued its own paper fractional currency to address the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation after July 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to the rear economy forced grocers, cooperatives, and municipal councils alike into emergency emission.
Imprenta Unió Obrera — the Workers' Union Press — printed numerous such vales across the region. The AL#2546 reference places this within the Altés catalogue of Catalan local issues, a series that now runs to thousands of distinct emissions from that three-year period.