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50 Centimos Barcelona; Sindicat Obrer de les Aigües de Barcelona
| Issuer | Sindicat Obrer de les Aigües de Barcelona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | SINDICAT OBRER DE LES AIGÜES DE BARCELONA Sèrie A 50 cèntims Barcelona, 1er. d'Abril del 1937 EL CAIXER, EL PRESIDENT, (Translation: "Les Aigúes de Barcelona Workers' Union Series A 50 Centimos Barcelona, April 1, 1937 The Cashier, The President,) |
| Reverse description | Violet-brown oval guilloche underprint with ornamental foliate scrollwork extending to each side. At centre, a bold circular monogram interlaces the initials S, O, A, and B of the issuing entity within a double-ring border. |
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The Sindicat Obrer de les Aigües de Barcelona — the workers' union of the Barcelona water utility — issued fractional emergency currency during the acute coin shortage of 1936–37, when the Republican government had lost effective control over metallic circulation and collectivized enterprises began printing their own vales and tokens to make change. This note is one of several such emissions by utility and transport unions operating under anarcho-syndicalist self-management following the July 1936 revolutionary upheaval in Catalonia.
Imprenta Martí, Marí y Cia. handled a number of these local emergency pieces during the same period, working under considerable logistical pressure as Barcelona's commercial infrastructure was being reorganized from below.