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10 Centimos Manresa; Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats
| Issuer | Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats, Manresa |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in dark red letterpress. The issuer's name and town appear at the top, flanked by short rules; the large numeral '10' and denomination 'cèntims' occupy the centre, with a black hand-stamped serial number below. A single rectangular rule forms the perimeter frame, and a three-line usage clause runs across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats MANRESA 10 cèntims El seu valor, és acceptat únicament per a complementar el pago de qualsevulla entrada. (Translation: Collectivized Public Shows MANRESA 10 Centimos Its value is accepted only to complement the payment of any ticket.) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known in Catalan as "vals" or "moneda de paper local" — issued by collectivized enterprises during the Spanish Civil War. When the central government's coin supply collapsed in the Republican zone after July 1936, theaters, cinemas, and public entertainment venues in Catalonia were among the unlikely institutions pressed into issuing their own fractional currency. Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats was the collectivized entertainment authority operating in Manresa, a textile and industrial city in the Bages comarca inland from Barcelona.
The CNT-FAI anarcho-syndicalist collectivization drive of late 1936 put many such venues under worker control, making this note a direct artifact of that brief experiment.