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5 Centimos Barcelona; Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña
| Issuer | Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | FERROCARRILES DE SARRIÁ Y CATALUÑA 5 cms. VALE (Translation: Sarria and Catalonia Railways. 5 Centimos. Voucher.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain orange card stock with no printed text, imagery, or ornamental elements, confirming the utilitarian nature of this emergency transport voucher. |
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Ferrocarriles de Sarriá y Cataluña was a suburban railway operator running lines between Barcelona and the towns northwest of the city. During the Civil War, the acute shortage of small change across Republican-held Spain triggered an explosion of emergency fractional currency — known as moneda de cartón or vales — issued not by banks but by municipalities, cooperatives, trade unions, and, as here, private companies with enough local footprint to make their paper trusted within a narrow geographic range. The railway simply needed to make change at ticket windows.
AL#1207 places this among the Allepuz catalogue of Catalan Civil War emergency issues, a field where counterfeits and later reproductions are not uncommon.