5 Centimos Sesgarrigues del Penedès, Sindicat Agrícola Cooperatiu

Sesgarrigues del Penedès is a hamlet in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia — population a few hundred at most — and this note is a product of the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization wave that swept rural Catalonia during the first year of the Civil War. With the Republican monetary system breaking down and small coins vanishing from circulation almost immediately after July 1936, hundreds of agricultural cooperatives, municipalities, and collectives issued their own emergency fractional currency. The Sindicat Agrícola Cooperatiu here was almost certainly operating under CNT or UGT influence, as most rural Catalan cooperatives were by 1937.

The thick card stock was a practical choice — paper this small tears quickly in daily use. Surviving examples from village-level issuers like this one are genuinely uncommon; the quantities printed were tiny, redemption after the war was erratic, and most were simply discarded.