Catalog
5 Centimos Sabadell
| Issuer | Municipality of Sabadell |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Circular red cardboard token with black printed text arranged in two horizontal bands across the field. The upper legend reads DISTRIBUCIÓ RACIONAMENT and the lower legend reads SABADELL, separated by thin horizontal rules above and below the text block. The design is purely typographic with no figurative elements. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sabadell issued cardboard emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced chronic shortages of small-denomination coinage after silver and copper stocks were hoarded, melted, or simply ceased circulating. Municipalities across Catalonia produced their own suplements — locally sanctioned scrip meant to fill the gap left by the collapsing national coinage supply. Sabadell, as one of the major industrial centers of the Vallès Occidental, issued several denominations in this format.
Cardboard pieces were inherently fragile, and attrition rates were high even in short circulation. Turró 2239 reflects the cataloguing work of Andreu Turró, whose reference remains the standard for Spanish Civil War local issues.