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10 Céntimos Els Omells de na Gaia
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Els Omells de na Gaia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red letterpress on plain cream stock, the note bears the two-line issuer inscription 'Ajuntament / d'Els Omells de Na Gaia' in the upper portion, each line underscored by a horizontal rule. The denomination 'VAL PER 10 CÈNTIMS' is set in large bold capitals at centre, with the issue date 'Emissió d'Octubre del 1937' in smaller text at lower left and a handstamped serial number at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Els Omells de Na Gaia VAL PER 10 CÈNTIMS Emissió d'Octubre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Els Omells de Na Gaia Voucher for 10 Centimes Issue of October 1937) |
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Els Omells de na Gaia is a village in the Urgell comarca of Lleida with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Republic. That a municipality this small produced its own paper currency in 1937 is less surprising than it sounds — the breakdown of the Republican monetary supply chain during the Civil War forced hundreds of Catalan towns to print emergency fractional notes, known as moneda local or bitllets municipals, simply to keep local commerce moving. Silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation by mid-1936.
Turró catalogues over 1,700 such emissions. This one, at the lower end of that sequence, is among the more obscure small-village issues — scarcity is real but demand is narrow.