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25 Céntimos Cabanes, Sindicat Agrícol
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol de Cabanes |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#– |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRÍCOL CABANES Val per 25 cts. Trayter, Figueres |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain orange card stock surface with no text, ornamentation, or security devices. |
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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.