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50 Céntimos Torrevieja, Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos
| Issuer | Sociedad de Camareros, Hoteleros y Anexos, Torrevieja (U.G.T. - Casa del Pueblo) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in brown letterpress, with the denomination 'Cincuenta centimos' across the top and its mirror image inverted along the bottom edge, and the value '50 centimos' reading vertically along both side margins. The central field carries the issuing entity name underlined, above the large-format voucher legend 'VALE POR 50 CTS.', followed by the place and date of issue and the manuscript serial number. A circular violet validation stamp is applied to the right-centre of the field. Ornamental cross-hatched corner devices frame the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise plain cream card stock bearing a large circular violet rubber stamp applied centrally, with a serrated outer border. The stamp legend reads 'SOCIEDAD DE CAMAREROS, HOTELEROS Y ANEXOS - TORREVIEJA' around the perimeter, enclosing the initials 'U.G.T.' above the inscription 'Casa del Pueblo' in the centre field. Faint partial impressions of the obverse design are visible by transparency. |
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Civil War-era Spain produced hundreds of these small-denomination local emergency issues, most tied to trade union affiliations. This one was issued by a hospitality and service workers' union — the camareros and hoteleros — operating under the U.G.T. umbrella out of the Casa del Pueblo in Torrevieja, a coastal salt-industry town in Alicante province. When the Republican zone's small coinage essentially evaporated from circulation in 1936–37, local unions, municipalities, and cooperatives filled the vacuum with card-stock tokens like this one.
The Gari Mon cataloguing for Valencia-region emergency notes is the primary reference for this material, and survival rates for Torrevieja union issues are low — these circulated hard in a small, working-class community.