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10 Centimos Barcelona; Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados
| Issuer | Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 75 x 30 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | TRANVÍAS DE BARCELONA COLECTIVIZADOS 03163 VALE POR DIEZ CÉNTIMOS DE PESETA VÉASE EL DORSO C.N.T. Tip. Emporium U.G.T. (Translation: Barcelona Collectivized Trams. Voucher for Ten Centimos of Peseta. See back.) |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTOS VALES SE ESTABLECEN CON EL EXCLUSIVO OBJETO DE FACILITAR LOS CAMBIOS ANTE LA DIFICULTAD DE ENCONTRAR MONEDA FRACCIONARIA; TIENEN POR LO TANTO CARÁCTER TRANSITORIO Y SU VALOR DE DIEZ CÉNTIMOS PUEDE SERVIR PARA EL PAGO TOTAL O PARCIAL DE LOS BILLETES QUE SE ADQUIERAN PARA TRANSITAR POR CUALQUIERA DE LAS LÍNEAS DE ESTA COLECTIVIDAD. EL COMITÉ OBRERO DE CONTROL (Translation: These vouchers are established for the sole purpose of facilitating change due to the difficulty in finding small change; they are therefore temporary and their value of ten centimos can be used for the full or partial payment of tickets purchased for travel on any of the lines of this collective. The Workers' Control Committee) |
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Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados was one of the many transport enterprises seized and run by anarcho-syndicalist workers' committees — primarily CNT-affiliated — following the July 1936 revolutionary uprising in Barcelona. These small-denomination vales were emergency scrip, issued because the broader economic disruption had caused a severe shortage of small change throughout Catalonia. Dozens of collectives, factories, and municipalities issued their own fractional currency during this period; the tramway workers' version is among the more straightforwardly functional examples, printed by a known Barcelona commercial house rather than improvised means.
The CNT collectivization of public transit was formally recognized under the Catalan government's October 1936 collectivization decree.