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5 Centimos Granollers; Agrupament de la Indústria Flequera
| Issuer | Agrupament de la Indústria Flequera de Granollers |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain ochre-toned card stock with black letterpress text. The issuer name appears in two lines across the upper portion, with the denomination expressed as a large numeral "5" flanked by "Val" at left and "cts" at right in the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing the natural texture of the thick ochre card stock, with no text, vignette, or any printed elements. |
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Agrupament de la Indústria Flequera de Granollers — the bakers' trade association of Granollers — issued this during the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization of Catalonia following the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of local bodies, guilds, and collectives issued their own small-denomination scrip when Republican-zone coinage essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted almost immediately after the war began.
A bakers' collective issuing currency is not unusual for the period — what is unusual is that this one survived. Granollers was heavily bombed in May 1938, one of the war's most destructive air raids on a Catalan town.