Catalog
10 Céntimos Cúllar-Baza
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Cúllar-Baza |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress note enclosed within a simple rectangular border formed by stepped corner ornaments and horizontal rules, with the serial number centred at the top flanked by cross devices. Below, the large denomination numeral dominates the upper field, followed by the three-line obligation text and the date; three facsimile signatures conclude the design beneath their respective role headings — EL INTERVENTOR, EL DEPOSITARIO, and EL ALCALDE — with paired horizontal rules forming the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in violet, with the denomination figure repeated in each corner. A central oval dotted guilloche ornament frames the two-line issuer inscription, accented by small diamond devices at the apex and base of the oval. |
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Cúllar-Baza is a small municipality in Granada province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional paper when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. Republican-zone copper and silver had been hoarded, melted, or requisitioned, leaving local commerce without any means to make change. Municipal councils stepped in by necessity, not authority.
The Gari Monerris reference number is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either unknown to the compiler or documented after the catalog's relevant edition went to press — a situation not uncommon with the smaller Andalusian emissions.