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10 Céntimos Caniles

Issuer Sindicato Nacional Azucarero y de Alcohol Industrial, Azucarera de Caniles
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Reverse lettering C [serial number] 10 cts. NO ES VALEDERO SIN EL SELLO DEL SINDICATO Y LAS FIRMAS DEL PRESIDENTE Y SECRETARIO
(Translation: C [serial number] 10 Centimos It is not valid without the seal of the Union and the signatures of the President and Secretary.)
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Protection description Two manuscript signatures applied by hand (President and Secretary), each accompanied by an oval rubber stamp impression in contrasting ink; a circular union control stamp is additionally impressed on the reverse.
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One of hundreds of local emergency issues that proliferated across Nationalist and Republican Spain during the Civil War, when the collapse of normal coin supply forced agricultural cooperatives, municipalities, and industrial syndicates alike to print their own fractional scrip. The Azucarera de Caniles was a sugar-beet processing facility in Granada province — deep in Nationalist-held territory by 1937 — and the Sindicato Nacional Azucarero issued these notes as wage tokens or internal exchange instruments for workers who had no access to conventional small change.

The rubber stamp and handwritten signatures are functional anti-counterfeiting measures, not decorative. In a rural wartime economy, they also served as a chain of personal accountability.

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