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25 Centimos Barcelona; Gran Metro C. N. T.
| Issuer | Gran Metro C. N. T. (Barcelona) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain pale yellow card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer's name 'GRAN METRO C. N. T.' is set in large capitals across the upper portion, followed by a serial number field prefixed 'A. n.º' with a dotted line, and the denomination '25 Céntimos' stamped in the centre. A single line of smaller text across the lower margin reads 'Billete valedero como moneda fraccionaria,' asserting the note's legal standing as fractional currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | GRAN METRO C. N. T. A. n.º 16859 25 Céntimos Billete valedero como moneda fraccionaria. |
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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.