10 Céntimos Espolla

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.