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10 Céntimos Capçanes
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Capçanes |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a yellow-green guilloche underprint, mirroring the overall ornamental style of the obverse. The face of the note carries the promise-to-pay inscription with the issuer name and place and date of issue, framed by a dotted border consistent with the emergency issue format. |
| Reverse lettering | El Consell Municipal de CAPÇANES Pagarà al portador 10 cts. Capçanes, Agost del 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Capçanes will pay the bearer 10 centimos. Capçanes, August 1937) |
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Capçanes is a village in the Priorat comarca of Catalonia with a population that barely exceeded 500 in the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered acute shortages of small-denomination coinage — the peseta fractional coins had been hoarded or melted — and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including the smallest, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's emergency framework to issue their own local paper currency. This note is a direct product of that crisis.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona served numerous nearby municipalities during this period, producing runs for villages that lacked any local printing capacity of their own.