10 Céntimos Artés

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.