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5 Centimos Ulldecona; Colectividad Campesina
| Issuer | Colectividad Campesina de Ulldecona (C.N.T. - F.A.I.) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Colectividad Campesina de Ulldecona C. N. T. - F. A. I. Esta colectividad reconoce a favor del portador la cantidad de 5 Céntimos . EMISION 1937 Su validez la acredita el sello de la Colectividad estampado al dorso (Translation: Peasant Collectivity of Ulldecona C. N. T. - F. A. I. This Collectivity recognizes in favour of the bearer the amount of 5 Centimos. Issue 1937 Its validity is confirmed by the Community seal stamped on the back.) |
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Ulldecona, a small agricultural town in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, fell within the anarchist-controlled zone during the Spanish Civil War. The Colectividad Campesina — a peasant collective organized under the C.N.T.-F.A.I. — issued this vales as local scrip after conventional currency became scarce or ideologically suspect in collectivized communities. Hundreds of similar emergency emissions appeared across Republican Catalonia and Aragon between 1936 and 1938, each tied to a specific collective or municipality and worthless beyond its immediate community.
The stamp serves as the only anti-counterfeiting measure — modest even by the standards of wartime local issues. Printed by Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. in Barcelona, one of several commercial print shops that handled the bulk of Catalan collectivity scrip during this period.