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10 Centimos Masó; Sindicat Agrícol
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol de Masó (Province of Tarragona) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Size | 40 x 36 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRICOL MASÓ Val 10 céntims (Translation: Agricultural Union. Masó. Worth 10 centimes.) |
| Reverse description | Plain green card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a single oval rubber validation stamp applied in violet ink, inscribed with the entity name and locality of Masó. |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across the Republican zone forced thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and agricultural syndicates to print their own emergency paper. The Sindicat Agrícol de Masó — a small farming collective in the Baix Gaià comarca of Tarragona — was one of hundreds of such bodies that stepped in to keep local commerce moving when fractional currency simply vanished from circulation.
These hyper-local emissions are catalogued under the broader "Guerra Civil" vales system, but each is effectively unique to its issuing body. Survival rates vary wildly; notes from smaller rural syndicats were used hard and rarely preserved.