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10 Céntimos Les Cabanyes, Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Les Cabanyes, Secció Crèdit |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed on thick cream card stock in dark blue ink. The issuer's name 'SINDICAT AGRICOLA' is set in bold capitals at the head of the note, bracketed above and below by heavy horizontal rules. To the left, a large bold numeral '10' anchors the denomination, with the bearer clause arranged in three lines to its right; the place and date of issue, 'Les Cabanyes, 15 octubre 1937', appear centred beneath the lower rule. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse consists entirely of unprinted cream-coloured card stock, bearing no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Les Cabanyes is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like dozens of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, its agricultural cooperative stepped into the monetary vacuum left by the collapse of normal currency circulation in the Republican zone. The Sindicat Agrícola's credit section issued these small-denomination emergency notes — vales or moneda local — to keep local commerce functioning when metallic coin had entirely disappeared from daily transactions by mid-1937.
Thick card stock was the practical choice for low-value pieces expected to circulate hard within a tight geographic radius. The Gari Mon reference remaining unassigned suggests this piece was either unknown to Gari at the time of cataloging or surfaced too late for inclusion.