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| Issuer | Sindicato del Arte Textil, Callosa de Segura |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly plain reverse printed on white paper, bearing a red oval validation stamp reading 'SINDICATO DEL ARTE TEXTIL / CALLOSA DE SEGURA (ALICANTE)' with a serrated outer border and two small stars, applied by hand at center. A serial number is printed in black in the lower left area. |
| Reverse lettering | SINDICATO DEL ARTE TEXTIL CALLOSA DE SEGURA (ALICANTE) |
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Callosa de Segura was a center of esparto and hemp processing in the Vega Baja, and the Sindicato del Arte Textil — the textile workers' union — issued these fractional notes during the Civil War when Republican Spain's small-change crisis made coins effectively unavailable. Hundreds of local bodies, unions, and municipalities filled the vacuum with their own emergency paper, and the Arte Textil issues are among the more obscure of these, tied to a single trade union in a single town.
The Gari Montaner reference places this in a well-documented but thinly circulated series. Union-issued fracciones from this region were often printed on whatever stock was available, and paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples.