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10 Céntimos Arbeca
| Issuer | Arbeca, Municipality of |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#167 |
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| Obverse lettering | ARBECA MONEDA LOCAL 10 cèntims (Translation: Arbeca Local coinage 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse, largely blank, with a faint municipal seal and a serial number applied either by letterpress or in manuscript. |
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Arbeca is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the collapse of small-change circulation in 1936–37. These local issues — known as "moneda de guerra" or "papel moneda municipal" — were typically produced with whatever printing resources a town hall could access, which in many cases meant a local press or even a rubber stamp on cardboard stock.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for these issues. Survival rates vary enormously by municipality; smaller towns produced lower quantities, but wartime disruption and the post-Franco suppression of Republican-era material destroyed a significant proportion.