Catalog
15 Centimos Barcelona; Gran Metro C. N. T.
| Issuer | Gran Metro C.N.T. (Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | GRAN METRO C. N. T. A. nº 8162 15 Céntimos Billete valedero como moneda fraccionaria. |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, leaving the plain pale cream card stock surface exposed with no text, vignette, or decorative element of any kind. |
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Issued by the workers' collective that seized control of Barcelona's Gran Metro during the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization of July 1936, this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional pieces produced across Catalonia when the Republic's small change essentially evaporated under wartime hoarding. The CNT-FAI takeover of transport infrastructure was among the most extensive in the city — metro workers genuinely ran the system collectively for much of the war, and these notes functioned as real operational currency within that framework, not propaganda tokens.
Almanza catalog reference 1196 places it within a dense field of Barcelona transport and utility collectivization issues, most of which had ceased to be honored well before Franco's forces entered the city in January 1939.