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10 Céntimos El Prat de Llobregat
| Issuer | El Prat de Llobregat, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Central oval cartouche enclosing the municipal coat of arms of El Prat de Llobregat — crossed key and sword beneath a mural crown — set against a background of radiating geometric guilloche lines. The denomination '10 CENTIMS' is printed in bold letterpress to the left and right of the central vignette, with the issuer's name arching below the coat of arms. A red serial number appears in the upper right corner, and the printer's imprint is present at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal fins el 31-12-38. AJUNTAMENT DEL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT 10 CENTIMS (Translation: Redeemable in the municipal treasury until December 31, 1938. City Council of El Prat de Llobregat 10 Centimos) |
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El Prat de Llobregat was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued their own small-denomination paper during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's fractured supply chains left a catastrophic shortage of coinage in circulation. These local emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes de necesidad* phenomenon — were legally authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya from mid-1936 onward, giving individual ajuntaments the right to print scrip redeemable only within their own jurisdiction.
Imprenta Bassa i Pagès was a working Barcelona commercial printer, not a specialist security press. The technical limitations show in the series — relatively simple intaglio work, modest anti-counterfeiting measures.