Catalog
10 Centimos Vilabella; Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Vilabella |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Sindicat Agrícola VILABELLA Val 10 cts. (Translation: Agricultural Union It's worth 10 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRÍCOLA i CAIXA RURAL DE *VILABELLA* (Translation: Agricultural Union and Rural Savings Bank of Vilabella) |
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Vilabella is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its agricultural cooperative stepped into the currency vacuum left when Republican authorities lost control of the money supply in 1936. The Sindicat Agrícola — a farmers' collective, not a bank — had no mandate to issue money and no printing infrastructure to speak of, which is exactly why these emergency pieces were produced on heavy card rather than proper banknote paper.
Local emergency issues from cooperatives of this size rarely survived in quantity. Most circulated hard within a single village economy and were either spent into tatters or became worthless overnight when the Nationalists consolidated control of the region in early 1939.