10 Centimos Cervera; Casa del Poble

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.