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10 Céntimos Bellaguarda
| Issuer | Ajuntament Constitucional de Bellaguarda |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#356 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress text in black and dark blue on orange card stock, with the municipal coat of arms set within an octagonal medallion at centre. The issuing authority and denomination are printed in two lines of bold type surrounding the vignette. The overall design is austere, consistent with the emergency issue character of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL DE BELLAGUARDA Val per 10 cèntims (Translation: Constitutional City Council of Bellaguarda Valid for 10 Centimos) |
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Bellaguarda is a tiny municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Catalonia — population in the hundreds even now — and like dozens of similarly small Catalan towns, it issued its own fractional emergency paper during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone coin effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. These hyper-local emissions, catalogued exhaustively by Turró, were produced by individual town councils with whatever printing resources were at hand. Quality varied wildly.
At 52 × 35 mm on thick card stock, this is essentially a hand-stamped chit rather than a banknote in any conventional sense. Survival rates for issues from villages this small tend to be low simply because so few were printed to begin with.