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10 Céntimos Cárcer
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cárcer |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#450-A, TurróPV#539 |
| Obverse description | Printed on buff-coloured card stock, the obverse carries a large bold numeral '10' in dark ink occupying the left half of the note. To the upper right, the text 'Consejo Municipal' appears in a smaller serif typeface above the issuing municipality name 'CÁRCER' in capitals, separated by a short rule. The denomination 'céntimos' is set in a larger italic typeface across the lower right, underlined by a bold rule. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, consisting of unprinted buff-coloured card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements of any kind. |
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Cárcer is a small municipality in Valencia province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local emissions, known collectively as "billetes locales" or "papel moneda de necesidad," were produced under wildly varying conditions, often by town councils with no printing infrastructure whatsoever.
The Turró and Gari catalogues together document well over a thousand such emissions from the Valencia region alone. That density of reference material is itself telling: most of these notes survived only in tiny quantities, and collectors have been piecing together the record ever since.