Catalog
25 Centimos Barcelona; Gran Metro C. N. T.
| Issuer | Gran Metro C. N. T. (Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | GRAN METRO C. N. T. A. n.º 16859 25 Céntimos Billete valedero como moneda fraccionaria. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, leaving the pale yellow card stock surface blank. |
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The Gran Metro de Barcelona was operated by the CNT — the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo — after workers seized the network in the revolutionary upheaval of July 1936. This transit token note is one of dozens of small-denomination emergency issues produced by collectivized enterprises across Catalonia during the Civil War, when the Republican zone faced acute small-change shortages and centralized monetary authority had effectively collapsed at the local level.
Collectivized transport operations issued their own scrip partly out of necessity, partly as ideological assertion. Whether these circulated beyond the turnstile or served purely as internal fare media remains debated among Civil War currency specialists.