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5 Céntimos Les Cabanyes, Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Les Cabanyes |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in dark blue letterpress. A bold horizontal rule runs across the upper portion of the note, with the issuer name 'SINDICAT AGRICOLA' set in large capital letters above it; a second horizontal rule below separates the denomination field. The large numeral '5' appears at the left, with the payment legend in Catalan script to its right, and the place and date inscription centered along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT AGRICOLA 5 cèntims pagarà al portador la Secció Crèdit. Les Cabanyes, 15 octubre 1937 (Translation: Agricultural Union 5 Centimos will be paid to the bearer by the Credit Section. Les Cabanyes, October 15, 1937) |
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Les Cabanyes is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like dozens of similar villages during the Civil War, its agricultural cooperative issued emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's small-change crisis made low-denomination coinage effectively impossible to obtain. These hyper-local issues — often printed on whatever card stock was at hand — were never intended to circulate beyond the immediate community, sometimes only within the cooperative's own membership.
The Gari Mon catalogue reference is incomplete, which is typical for the less-documented Catalan village issues. Many were produced in very small runs and survive today almost by accident.