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10 Céntimos Rodonyà; Sindicat Agrícola

Issuer Sindicat Agrícola de Rodonyà
Year 1936-1939
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Size 51 x 51 mm
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Obverse description Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress, with the issuer name 'Sindicat Agrícola' and locality 'Rodonyà' in bold serif type at the top, separated from the denomination text 'Val de 10 Céntims' by a short horizontal rule. A partial red circular control stamp is applied in the upper right corner.
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Reverse description Reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain cream card stock with no text, vignette, or overprint of any kind.
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One of hundreds of local emergency issues that flooded Catalonia after the July 1936 military uprising disrupted the national money supply. With the Republican government unable to maintain small-denomination coin circulation, agricultural cooperatives, municipalities, and workers' collectives across the region printed their own vales and tokens. Sindicat Agrícola de Rodonyà — a small farming collective in the Alt Camp comarca — issued this piece purely for local exchange, accepted nowhere else.

The perfectly square format was a practical choice common to several Catalan village issuers working with limited printing equipment and pre-cut card stock.

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