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25 Centimos Barcelona; Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña
| Issuer | Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Shape | Square |
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| Obverse description | Square green card stock voucher with all text printed by letterpress. The issuer's name FERROCARRILES DE SARRIÁ Y CATALUÑA is rendered in bold black capitals across the upper portion, while the face value "25 cms." appears in the centre in red. The word VALE is printed in bold black capitals at the foot of the card. |
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| Reverse description | Plain green card stock, unprinted, showing the natural texture and fibrous surface of the card material with no design elements or inscriptions. |
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Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña was a private suburban railway operator running lines between Barcelona and the surrounding hill towns — Sarrià, Sant Gervasi, and beyond. When the Civil War disrupted the Spanish monetary supply from 1936 onward, hundreds of Catalan municipalities, businesses, and institutions issued their own fractional emergency currency. This note is one of them: small-denomination vales or cartones circulated as practical substitutes when Republican-zone coinage nearly vanished from daily commerce.
The square format was a deliberate choice for many Catalan transport issuers — it distinguished their scrip from official currency at a glance. The Generalitat de Catalunya ultimately sought to rationalize these emissions under decree, but enforcement was uneven throughout the war.