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10 Céntimos Cúllar-Baza
| Issuer | Cúllar-Baza, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 93 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue with geometric border designs serving as a rudimentary guilloche frame. The text of the issuing entity — originally printed for Izquierda Republicana — is overprinted in red with the new issuing authority, Casa el Pueblo U.G.T. de Cúllar-Baza. The denomination and payment obligation are set in a hierarchical letterpress layout across the face of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CÉNTIMOS IZQUIERDA REPUBLICANA Casa el Pueblo U. G. T. de Cúllar-Baza (Granada) Oficios Varios pagará al portador en billetes de Banco la cantidad de DIEZ CENTIMOS. Cúllar-Baza 23 Julio 1937 (Translation: 10 Centimos Republican Left Town House U. G. T. of Cúllar-Baza (Granada) Various Offices will pay the bearer in Bank notes the amount of Ten Centimos. Cullar-Baza July 23, 1937) |
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Cúllar-Baza is a small municipality in the Granada province of southeastern Spain, and this 10 céntimos note is a product of the Republican zone's chronic small-change crisis during the Civil War. From 1936 onward, hoarding and the disruption of normal monetary supply left towns across loyalist Spain unable to make change for everyday transactions. The central government's response was slow, so municipalities, trade unions, and local committees simply printed their own.
These emergency emissions — known collectively as "billetes locales" — were technically illegal under existing monetary law but tolerated out of necessity. Gari Mon #583-C places this squarely within the documented Granada provincial emissions.