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1 Peseta Caniles
| Issuer | Sindicato Nacional Azucarero y de Alcohol Industrial, Azucarera de Caniles |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on plain cream paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority 'SINDICATO NACIONAL AZUCARERO Y DE ALCOHOL INDUSTRIAL' appears at the top outside the frame, with 'AZUCARERA DE CANILES (GRANADA)' in large capitals within. A cursive italic text block states the backing guarantee at Banco Español de Crédito, Baza branch, dated 10 de Mayo de 1937, flanked by two handwritten signatures above the titles 'EL PRESIDENTE' and 'EL SECRETARIO'. The denomination '1 peseta' appears twice at lower left and right in bold, with 'PAGADERO AL PORTADOR' centred below; 'U.G.T.' is printed vertically along both lateral margins, and an inverted legend runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left blank on plain cream paper, as was typical of Spanish Civil War local emergency issues produced under wartime austerity conditions. |
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Caniles is a small municipality in Granada province, and this note was issued by its sugar and industrial alcohol workers' syndicate during the Civil War — one of hundreds of local emergency issues that flooded Republican-held Spain after the banking system effectively collapsed in 1936. The CNT and UGT affiliates running such operations frequently issued their own vales and billetes de necesidad to maintain wage payments and basic commerce when coin disappeared from circulation entirely.
The Azucarera de Caniles itself was a beet sugar refinery, a crop-processing industry with strong anarcho-syndicalist organization in Andalusia. This specific Gari Mon listing places it firmly within the documented corpus of Granada province emergency paper, though surviving examples are scarce enough that condition spread among known specimens is considerable.