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50 Centimos Pineda; Colectivizaciones C. N. T.
| Issuer | Colectivizaciones CNT Pineda |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with an outer red letterpress border enclosing all text. A square grid underprint in pale olive fills the field, with the issuer name COLECTIVIZACIONES CNT PINEDA in large bold red capitals across the upper portion, serie designation and denomination 50 cts. in red on either side of the black manuscript serial number, and the printer imprint Gràfiques Calella at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper bearing three handwritten manuscript signatures in dark ink, two in the upper portion and one centered below, with no additional printed text or ornamental elements. |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional issues produced by anarcho-syndicalist collectives during the Spanish Civil War, this note reflects the practical reality of collectivized Catalonia: the CNT-FAI effectively controlled local economies in much of the region by late 1936, and municipalities printed their own scrip simply because Republican central authority had neither the capacity nor the reach to supply adequate small change. Pineda, a small coastal town north of Barcelona, issued through its local collectivization committee rather than any municipal government body — the CNT affiliation printed openly on the note itself was not incidental but a deliberate declaration of economic governance.
Gràfiques Calella, a local commercial printer a few kilometers down the coast, handled production for several of these Civil War issues. The AL#495 reference places this within Amorós Llordén's exhaustive census of Catalan Civil War emergency currency.