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10 Céntimos Artés
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Artés (Municipality of Artés) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large red numeral '10' at centre with the denomination 'CÈNTIMS' beneath, flanked by two teal-coloured vignettes: an industrial scene with a smokestack and worker to the left, and a rural agricultural landscape to the right. A decorative ribbon banner bearing the issuer's name runs across the top, with a six-digit serial number at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ARTÉS VAL PER DEU CÈNTIMS DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: City Council of Artés / Valid for Ten Centimos / Mandatory Local Currency) |
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Artés is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not reaching rural areas. These municipal emissions, collectively catalogued in Turró's definitive reference, were purely local instruments: legal only within the issuing municipality and accepted nowhere else.
Tip. El Secretariat Català in Barcelona printed for numerous Catalan municipalities during this period, making the printer attribution less a mark of distinction than a logistical convenience of wartime.