20 Centimos Barcelona; Comité Económico de Cines

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.