Catalog
10 Centimos Barcelona; Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña
| Issuer | Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain brown cardboard voucher with all text applied by letterpress in black ink, arranged in a stacked, centred layout. The issuer name FERROCARRILES DE SARRIÁ Y CATALUÑA is printed in bold black capitals across the upper portion, while the face value 10 CMS. is rendered in a contrasting red. The word VALE appears in bold black capitals at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely blank unprinted brown cardboard, showing the natural fibrous texture of the card stock with no printed design, inscription, or marking of any kind. |
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Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña was a privately operated narrow-gauge railway running between Barcelona and the Sarrià and Vallès districts. During the Civil War, when the Republican government's monetary system fractured and small copper and bronze coins vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936, hundreds of Catalan municipalities, companies, and cooperatives began issuing their own emergency fractional pieces. This railway's cardboard token is one of those local substitutes — a transit operator effectively printing its own petty currency to keep change flowing at ticket windows.
These are catalogued within the vast *Allepuz* corpus of Spanish Civil War local issues. The 30 × 30 mm square format and brown card stock are consistent with other transport-sector emissions from Barcelona during this period.