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1 Peseta Fonollosa, Sindicat Agrícol `Carles Marx`
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol Carles Marx, Fonollosa |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRÍCOL `CARLES MARX` FONOLLOSA N.º 257 Val per UNA pesseta (Translation: Agricultural Union `Karl Marx` Fonollosa No. 257 Valid for One Peseta) |
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| Reverse lettering | Sindicat Agrícol Carles Marx FONOLLOSA (Translation: Agricultural Union Karl Marx, Fonollosa) |
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Fonollosa is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and during the Civil War its collectivized agricultural syndicate — formally named after Karl Marx — issued its own local currency, as dozens of similar bodies did across Republican-controlled territory from 1936 onward. These emergency emissions were a direct consequence of the social revolution that accompanied the military uprising: collectivized enterprises needed a medium of exchange when conventional banking had effectively collapsed at the local level.
The thick card stock was a practical choice — cheaper to produce in quantity without specialist printing equipment, and more durable in daily agricultural transactions. Gari Mon catalogues two varieties for this denomination; this is the B type.