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5 Céntimos Guardiola del Penedés, Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Guardiola del Penedès |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue card stock with all text printed in dark brown by letterpress, without any vignette or ornamental border. The issuer's name appears in cursive script across two lines at the top, followed by the denomination value in two lines of progressively larger bold type at centre. A handwritten serial number is entered in ink on a dotted baseline at the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sindicat agrícola Guardiola del Penedés Val per 5 céntims Núm. 0083 (Translation: Agricultural Union Guardiola del Penedès Voucher for 5 Centimos) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — forcing thousands of municipalities, cooperatives, and agricultural collectives to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Sindicat Agrícola de Guardiola del Penedès was one of hundreds of Catalan bodies that filled the gap, issuing card-stock vales that functioned as local scrip redeemable only within the community's own commercial network.
The square format is characteristic of many Catalan municipal issues from this period, partly a practical response to paper shortages and partly a means of visual differentiation from official currency. Gari Mon catalogues this as 749-A, implying at least one variant exists within the type.