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10 Céntimos Collsuspina
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Collsuspina (Municipality of Collsuspina) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#863 |
| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire face, enclosed within a red chain-link ornamental border with decorative corner rosettes. The municipal name AJUNTAMENT de COLLSUSPINA is printed in red letterpress across the top, with the large denomination numeral 10 CTS. centred in red. Two signature lines appear below, captioned L'Interventor and L'Alcalde, with a handwritten serial number prefixed by No. The redemption clause is set in a single line at the foot, with the printer's imprint Imp. Anglada - Vic in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO CONSTITUCIONAL DE COLLSUSPINA (Translation: Constitutional City Council of Collsuspina) |
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Collsuspina is a tiny municipality in the Moianès comarca of Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even today. This note was issued during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination emergency currency to address a severe shortage of coin. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did exactly this, flooding the region with locally printed paper fractions whose quality varied enormously depending on who happened to have a press nearby.
Imprenta Anglada in Vic served several of these small municipal issuers. The official stamp is the primary — essentially the only — security measure, which tells you everything about the trust model: community recognition, not technical printing sophistication, was doing the authentication work.