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10 Céntimos Bagà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bagà (Municipality of Bagà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAGÀ reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de DEU CÈNTIMS acord del dia 6 de novembre de 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Bagà recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Ten Centimos agreement of November 6, 1937 Mandatory course throughout the municipality) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream cardboard, with an intricate guilloche underprint of interlocking wave and scroll patterns filling the entire field. A large central circle encloses the bold numeral '10' above the denomination legend, with a serial number hand-stamped in black at the lower right. The outer border repeats a decorative geometric frieze consistent with locally produced Civil War-era emergency currency. |
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Bagà is a small town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the collapse of coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functional small-change supply pushed the burden onto local councils, resulting in thousands of distinct local emissions — the Turró catalog documents over 1,600 issuers for Catalonia alone.
Cardboard issues from small municipalities like Bagà were purely functional stopgaps, often produced locally with minimal printing infrastructure. Most saw intensive short-range circulation and were redeemed or simply discarded when the war ended.