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10 Centimos Cervera; Ateneu Obrer
| Issuer | Ateneu Obrer de Cervera |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Square card with rounded corners, printed in red letterpress. A circular border encloses horizontal ruling lines filling the field, with the denomination ABONO 10 CTS. in bold lettering across the centre. Issuer name ATENEU OBRER arcs along the top and CERVERA along the bottom of the circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | ATENEU OBRER ABONO 10 CTS. CERVERA |
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Ateneu Obrer de Cervera was a workers' cultural association in the Catalan town of Cervera — not a bank, not a municipality — yet during the anarchist and Republican administration of the Civil War years it issued emergency fractional currency alongside dozens of similar bodies across Catalonia. The Generalitat had authorized local entities to fill the catastrophic small-change vacuum left by hoarding and metallic currency withdrawal in 1936, which is why an atheneum could briefly become a money-issuing authority.
At 40 x 40 mm, this is among the smallest formats produced during that wave of Catalan local issues — closer to a postage stamp than a banknote.