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50 Céntimos Palau Sabardera, Sindicat Agrícol
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícol de Palau Sabardera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 68 × 51 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue ink on thick card stock, with a red serial number and an oval validation stamp applied in red. The text is arranged in a straightforward letterpress layout, with the issuer name and denomination inscribed centrally, and signature lines for the Cashier and President positioned at the lower portion. A red dotted border runs along the full perimeter of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, consisting of plain grey-blue card stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Palau Sabardera is a small agricultural village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and its wartime scrip belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally issued emergency currency that followed the July 1936 collapse of the Republican monetary system. With coin hoarding endemic and the central government unable to guarantee supply, thousands of Catalan municipalities, cooperatives, and syndicates printed their own fractional notes. The Sindicat Agrícol — an agricultural cooperative rather than a civic authority — issuing currency reflects how completely normal economic infrastructure had dissolved.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: villages at this scale had no access to security paper, and heavier card was harder to casually counterfeit and held up better in daily market use.