10 Céntimos Capçanes

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.