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5 Centimos Barcelona; Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados
| Issuer | Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Issued on thick lavender-tinted card stock, the obverse carries a solid vertical red stripe along the left margin, with the issuer's name in bold letterpress at upper left and a serial number in the upper right corner. The central field bears the denomination text in large spaced capitals across three lines, with a smaller notice to consult the reverse at the foot. The printer's imprint referencing C.N.T. and U.G.T. union affiliations appears at the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | ESTOS VALES SE ESTABLECEN CON EL EXCLUSIVO OBJETO DE FACILITAR LOS CAMBIOS ANTE LA DIFICULTAD DE ENCONTRAR MONEDA FRACCIONARIA; TIENEN POR LO TANTO CARÁCTER TRANSITORIO Y SU VALOR DE CINCO CÉNTIMOS PUEDE SERVIR PARA EL PAGO TOTAL O PARCIAL DE LOS BILLETES QUE SE ADQUIERAN PARA TRANSITAR POR CUALQUIERA DE LAS LÍNEAS DE ESTA COLECTIVIDAD. EL COMITÉ OBRERO DE CONTROL (Translation: These vouchers are established for the sole purpose of facilitating change due to the difficulty in finding small change; they are therefore temporary and their value of five centimos can be used for the full or partial payment of tickets purchased for travel on any of the lines of this collective. The Workers' Control Committee) |
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Tranvías de Barcelona Colectivizados was one of hundreds of enterprises seized and collectively operated by anarcho-syndicalist workers under the CNT-FAI during the early months of the Spanish Civil War. The collectivization decree of October 1936 formalized what had already happened in practice — workers running the tramway network from July of that year, including issuing their own emergency fractional currency when coinage effectively disappeared from circulation in Republican Catalonia.
Small-denomination vales like this one functioned as wage tokens and fare change substitutes simultaneously. Tipografía Emporium was a Barcelona commercial printer pressed into service for dozens of such issues across the city's collectivized industries.