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5 Centimos Vinaixa, Sindicato C. N. T.
| Issuer | Sindicato C.N.T. de Vinaixa |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Reference(s) | AL#3602 3603-v |
| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock with all text printed in black letterpress within a thick rectangular border frame. The issuing authority name appears at the top in two lines, followed by a serial number line with a hand-stamped numeral, and the denomination in bold type at the foot. A partial red ink stamp impression is visible at the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sindicato C. N. T. VINAIXA Núm. 633 VALE 5 cts. (Translation: Union C. N. T. VINAIXA No. 633 Worth 5 Centimos) |
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Vinaixa is a village in the Conca de Barberà district of Tarragona province with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. When the CNT — the anarcho-syndicalist trade union — effectively took over local administration across swaths of Republican Catalonia following the July 1936 coup attempt, communities this small were suddenly responsible for managing their own exchange. Coined metal had vanished almost immediately, hoarded or requisitioned, forcing collectivized municipalities and syndicates to print their own fractional scrip.
The CNT affiliation printed on these vales was not decorative — it meant the issuing body was the local syndicate functioning as de facto municipal authority. Redemption depended entirely on the collective surviving the war, which most did not.