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25 Céntimos Cabanes, Sindicat Agrícol
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol de Cabanes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on orange card stock, the face is enclosed within a rectangular border composed of a dotted inner rule with solid square corner ornaments. The issuer's name SINDICAT AGRÍCOL appears in bold capitals across the upper field, with CABANES centred below and underscored by a short rule terminating in a downward-pointing arrow device. The denomination Val per 25 cts. is set in large type across the lower half, with the printer's imprint Trayter, Figueres placed outside the frame at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRÍCOL CABANES Val per 25 cts. Trayter, Figueres |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage in Republican-held Catalonia forced hundreds of local entities — cooperatives, municipalities, trade unions — to issue their own emergency paper. The Sindicat Agrícol de Cabanes, a small agricultural cooperative in a village near Tarragona, was one of thousands that did exactly this in 1937. These hyper-local emissions were never intended to circulate beyond the immediate community, often just a single street or market.
Imprenta Trayter in Figueres produced a notable quantity of these Catalan wartime locals. The thick card stock was a practical choice — it held up marginally better than thin paper in daily hand-to-hand use among farm laborers and market vendors. Most were redeemed or destroyed within months as the war situation shifted.