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0.50 Pesetas Solivella; Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Solivella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | El Sindicat Agrícola abonarà al portador 0'50 PESSETES Solivella 2 de Maig del 1937. El President El Tresorer (Translation: The Agricultural Union will pay the bearer 0.50 Pesetas Solivella May 2, 1937 The President The Treasurer) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in violet ink, with the face value 'VAL 0'50 PTS.' at centre, set against a geometric squares guilloche underprint. A vignette of one or three bunches of grapes appears to the left. The serial number and printer's imprint are present at the foot of the design. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan agricultural cooperatives and local syndicates during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced acute coin shortages almost immediately after July 1936. The Sindicat Agrícola de Solivella — a small farming cooperative in the Conca de Barberà comarca — printed these fractional notes through Imprenta De Ferrando in Reus, a press that handled emergency paper for numerous local bodies across the region during this period.
Solivella's total population at the time was under a thousand. That a village of that size was issuing its own paper currency speaks directly to how completely the normal monetary supply had broken down.