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1 Peseta Palau Sabardera, Sindicat Agrícol
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol de Palau Sabardera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 68 × 51 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency issue in blue ink over a yellow spiral guilloche underprint, framed by a red dotted border following the perimeter. The denomination and issuing body are set centrally in bold type, with signature lines for the Cashier and President at the foot of the note. An oval validation stamp appears on the face, and the serial number is hand-stamped in red. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain cream-coloured card stock with no design, text, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Palau Sabardera is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and during the Civil War its agricultural cooperative — like dozens of similar sindicats across Republican-held territory — issued emergency local currency when the central government's coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. The Republican decree of June 1937 attempted to formalize and eventually suppress these emissions, but many small issuers had already been printing and circulating their own notes for months before Madrid or Barcelona noticed.
The Gari catalogue documents this as the sole known emission from this sindicat. Small-run local issues from agricultural cooperatives in the Alt Empordà are among the more difficult Catalan Civil War notes to locate today.