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5 Centimos Premià; Cooperativa Popular La Fraternitat Obrera
| Issuer | Cooperativa Popular La Fraternitat Obrera |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#498 |
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| Obverse lettering | Cooperativa Popular La Fraternitat Obrera Premià 5 cèntims (Translation: Popular Cooperative. 5 Centimos.) |
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| Reverse lettering | COOPERATIVA POPULAR LA FRATERNITAT OBRERA PREMIÀ DE DALT (Translation: Popular Cooperative.) |
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La Fraternitat Obrera was a workers' cooperative in Premià de Mar, a small coastal town north of Barcelona. Like hundreds of similar entities across Catalonia, it began issuing its own small-denomination paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936. Copper and silver had vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and local bodies of every description stepped in to fill the gap.
These emergency vales circulated exclusively within the cooperative's membership network. Outside that community, they were worthless paper.