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10 Pesetas Begur; Cooperativa Bagurense
| Issuer | Cooperativa Bagurense (Begur) |
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| Value | 10 Pesetas (10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in tan, with the issuer name 'Cooperativa Bagurense' and town name 'Bagur' at top, separated from the denomination panel below by a horizontal rule. The denomination 'VALE POR / 10 PESETAS' is set in bold letterpress across the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain tan card stock, unprinted, with rounded corners; may bear a cooperative rubber stamp impression on some examples. |
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The Cooperativa Bagurense was one of hundreds of Catalan consumer cooperatives that issued their own emergency small-change paper during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain coin circulation created a vacuum filled at the purely local level. These notes — technically vales or tokens rather than currency — were honored only within the issuing cooperative's own commercial network, which in a small Costa Brava town like Begur meant a very limited circulation pool.
The AL reference places this within Andreu i Llonch's exhaustive catalog of Catalan local issues. Most pieces from cooperatives this small survive in tiny quantities, having been redeemed quickly or simply discarded once the war's outcome made the issuing body irrelevant.