10 Céntimos Espluga Calva

L'Espluga Calba is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 after the collapse of small-coin supply — a direct consequence of hoarding and the Republican government's inability to distribute adequate coinage to rural areas. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework but produced entirely at the municipal level, meaning quality, design, and paper stock varied wildly from town to town.

Turró 952 is among the more obscure entries in the series. L'Espluga Calba had a wartime population small enough that original print runs were likely modest, and survival rates for these paper fractionals are generally low — most circulated hard in a short window and were discarded once the crisis passed.