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10 Centimos Cervera; Casa del Poble
| Issuer | Casa del Poble, Cervera |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Square card printed in red ink with a central circular letterpress design. The outer ring bears the issuer name arched around the perimeter, enclosing horizontal rule lines above and below the central credit legend. The denomination inscription runs across the middle band within the circle. |
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| Obverse lettering | CASA del POBLE ABONO 10 CTS. CERVERA (Translation: House of the Village 10 Centimos credit) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities and local organizations issued their own small-denomination emergency paper — known collectively as paper moneda de necessitat — to combat the acute coin shortage that followed the July 1936 uprising. Cervera's Casa del Poble, a workers' social center aligned with the Republican left, was among them. These were hyperlocal instruments, accepted in practice only within the immediate community that issued them.
The square format is notable — 42 x 42 mm is an unusual choice even within this chaotic series, where standardization was never a priority. AL#3298 is catalogued by Andreu but survivors are scarce; most local Civil War emergency notes were either spent to destruction or lost when the Nationalist advance made them instantly worthless.