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15 Centimos Manresa; Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats
| Issuer | Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats, Manresa |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats MANRESA 15 cèntims 6056 El seu valor, és acceptat únicament per a complementar el pago de qualsevulla entrada. (Translation: Collectivized Public Shows 15 Centimos Its value is accepted only to complement the payment of any ticket.) |
| Reverse description | Blank grey card stock impressed with a single oval violet rubber stamp at centre. The stamp carries a circular legend around its perimeter and interior lines of text, applied by hand with evident ink variation across the impression. |
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Espectacles Públics Col·lectivitzats — Collectivized Public Entertainments — was one of the anarcho-syndicalist worker collectives that took over Catalonia's cultural and leisure industries during the early months of the Spanish Civil War. Manresa, a textile and industrial town northwest of Barcelona, produced dozens of distinct emergency fractional issues between 1936 and 1939, most printed by local means on whatever card stock was available. This 15 cèntims piece belongs to that improvised parallel economy, issued to cover small transactions when Republican-zone coinage had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and disruption.
The AL catalogue reference places it within Andreu-Llordés, the standard corpus for Catalan civil war paper money, which runs to thousands of entries — a measure of just how fragmented and hyperlocal this emergency currency became.