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25 Centimos Sardañola-Ripollet; Federación Local de Colectividades
| Issuer | Federación Local de Colectividades Sardañola-Ripollet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse presents the trade union initials 'C.N.T. - U.G.T.' in large letterpress across the upper field, set against a horizontal line guilloche underprint. A central ornamental cartouche with scrollwork encloses the denomination in full, with four circular '25' medallions at the corners. The black serial number is positioned at lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 C.N.T. - U.G.T. VEINTICINCO CÉNTIMOS Nº 01636 (Translation: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo - Unión General de Trabajadores Twenty-five Centimos) |
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Sardañola and Ripollet are neighboring municipalities in the Vallès Occidental comarca, and during the early months of the Spanish Civil War their collectivized industries and agricultural cooperatives federated under a single local authority. The resulting shortage of small change — a near-universal problem across Republican-controlled Catalonia — forced dozens of such federations to print their own fractional notes, which circulated as de facto currency within tightly bounded local economies.
Joan Sabadell, the Barcelona printer, produced multiple similar emergency issues for Catalan collectivities during this period. The federation dissolved as Nationalist forces advanced, and surviving notes from this issue are scarce.