Catalog
20 Centimos Barcelona; Comité Económico de Cines
| Issuer | Comité Económico de Cines (C.N.T. - A.I.T.), Barcelona |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink card stock in black letterpress, the obverse bears the issuer's name at top — 'C.N.T. Comité Económico de Cines A.I.T.' — underlined, with the denomination '20 céntimos' in large bold type at centre. A vertical olive-green stripe runs the full height of the note. The validity clause and serial number line appear in smaller type at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, on the same pink card stock, carries a large oval control stamp in violet ink applied diagonally at centre, with a handwritten signature crossing it. A partial blue stamp impression is visible at lower left. |
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The Comité Económico de Cines was one of hundreds of anarcho-syndicalist workers' committees that issued their own emergency fractional currency in Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising effectively collapsed central authority across the region. The CNT-FAI collectivized the Barcelona cinema industry almost immediately, and this note — issued by and for that specific sector — functioned as wages and change within a self-managed economic network that had no use for Republican pesetas it no longer trusted.
Catalan war-issue vales of this type are frequently found with heavy handling damage; the thick card stock was practical but not durable under daily use in venues that stayed open throughout the war.