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5 Centimos La Pobla de Montornès; Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de la Pobla de Montornès |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink card stock in black letterpress, the obverse carries a plain rectangular single-line border enclosing three lines of text in varying type sizes. A violet circular control stamp of the Sindicat Agrícola — Secció Recreativa is impressed across the centre of the note, partially overlapping the inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRICOLA Pobla de Montornés Val per 5 cents. (Translation: Agricultural Union Voucher for 5 Centimos) |
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One of thousands of emergency fractional issues produced by Catalan municipalities and cooperatives during the Civil War years, when Republican-held areas suffered acute shortages of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936. The Sindicat Agrícola — an agricultural cooperative rather than a financial institution — issued these notes as a purely local necessity, valid only within the village's own economic network. La Pobla de Montornès, a small Tarragona comarca settlement, had neither the infrastructure nor the authority to produce anything more sophisticated.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: thinner paper deteriorated rapidly in daily agricultural use. Gari Montserrat's catalogue documents over a thousand such issues from Catalonia alone, which gives some sense of how fragmented and improvised the Republican monetary response actually was at the village level.