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10 Centimos Berga; Casals - Gorrista
| Issuer | Casals Gorrista, Berga |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain green letterpress printing on cream paper. Left vignette shows a column surmounted by a cap; to its right, a male figure wearing a cap and monocle, smoking a pipe. Issuer name and denomination legend printed in green sans-serif type. |
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| Obverse lettering | CASALS GORRISTA BERGA VAL PER 10 CENTIMS DE PESSETA (Translation: Voucher for 10 Centimos of Peseta) |
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Berga is a small Catalan town in the Berguedà comarca, and like hundreds of municipalities across the Republican zone during the Civil War, it improvised its own emergency fractional currency when the hoarding of coins collapsed small-denomination circulation almost overnight in the summer of 1936. These local issues — known collectively as "moneda de necessitat" — were produced by town councils, cooperatives, businesses, and political organizations with whatever printing resources were at hand. Casals Gorrista was one such local issuer, and the AL catalogue reference places this squarely in the Generalitat-era municipal emission series.
Survival rates for these scrip notes vary wildly; many issuers printed small runs and recalled them within months.