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10 Céntimos Castellgalí
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellgalí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-colored card stock with a single rectangular border rule enclosing the entire face. The issuer name and denomination are rendered in brown letterpress typography: the upper portion carries the three-line legend 'Consell Municipal de Castellgalí', separated from the lower portion by a short horizontal rule, below which the value statement 'Val 10 cèntims' appears in a larger bold typeface. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Castellgalí Val 10 cèntims (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellgalí It's worth 10 Centimos) |
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Castellgalí is a small municipality in Bages, Barcelona province, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village this size issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — by 1937, the breakdown of small coinage across Republican-held Catalonia had pushed hundreds of municipalities, many far smaller than Castellgalí, into printing their own local scrip under a framework loosely sanctioned by the Generalitat.
At 40 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest formats in the entire Catalan wartime series. The thick card stock was a practical choice: notes this small had to survive pocket and till handling without disintegrating.