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10 Céntimos Espolla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Espolla (Municipality of Espolla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d`Espolla VAL 10 cèntims De curs local obligatori, segons acord del 31 octubre del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Espolla Value 10 Centimos Mandatory local course, according to the agreement of October 31, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain light-coloured paper reverse with a red ornamental geometric border matching the obverse frame. A large oval violet official stamp reading 'CONSTITUCIONAL' with a map vignette of Spain at centre is applied, serving as the validating authority mark for this emergency issue. Handwritten catalog reference numbers appear in the upper right corner. |
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Espolla is a small village in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, close to the French border. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered a near-total collapse of metallic small change — silver and copper coinage had vanished from circulation almost overnight, hoarded or melted — and hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by printing their own fractional emergency notes, locally called moneda de necessitat. Espolla was one of the smallest communities to do so.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such issues. The authentication here relies entirely on the official stamp rather than any printing security, which was typical at this scale of local issue.