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50 Céntimos Santes Creus, Sindicat Agrícola
| Issuer | Sindicat Agrícola de Santes Creus |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#1327-A |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green on plain paper, the reverse is framed by a fine oval-link chain border. A vignette of a bunch of grapes with foliage occupies the upper left corner, reflecting the agricultural character of the issuing body. The serial number appears in manuscript at upper right, accompanied by a circular issuer stamp, while the denomination numerals '50' are placed at lower left and lower right flanking the central issuer text. |
| Reverse lettering | Núm. 168 SINDICAT AGRICOLA DE SANTES CREUS 50 CÈNTIMS 50 (Translation: No. 168 Agricultural Union of Santes Creus 50 Centimos) |
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Sindicat Agrícola de Santes Creus was one of hundreds of Catalan agricultural cooperatives and local bodies that issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, filling the acute small-change shortage that developed after metallic coin was hoarded or melted following the July 1936 uprising. The village of Santes Creus — best known for its medieval Cistercian monastery — had no banking infrastructure capable of meeting even basic transactional needs once the Republican peseta coinage effectively disappeared from circulation.
Catalogued under Gari Mon #1327-A, this emission is among the more obscure of the Catalan Guerra Civil issues, produced in very limited quantities for purely local use within the cooperative's membership.