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10 Céntimos Albagés
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Albagés (Municipality of L'Albagés) |
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| Size | 49 × 43 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with all text typeset in black letterpress. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT D'ALBAGÉS appears in two lines at the top, underlined by a solid rule. The denomination 10 cts. is printed in large bold type at centre, with the serial number prefixed by Nº at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white ground bearing a large circular validation stamp applied in grey-blue ink at centre. The stamp legend reads AYUNTAMIENTO POPULAR ANTIFASCISTA · ALBAGÉS · around the perimeter, enclosing a central monogram. Pencilled collector notations appear in the upper right corner. |
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L'Albagés is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local bodies to plug the coin shortage caused by metal hoarding and wartime disruption. The Ajuntament series to which this 10 céntimos belongs is catalogued by Turró, the standard reference for Catalan Civil War municipal issues, under number 56.
At under 50mm square, this is among the smallest card-format issues in the Turró catalog — a function of the municipality's limited printing resources rather than any design decision.