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10 Céntimos Gandesa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Gandesa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Cooperativa Vinícola i Sindicat Agrícola building, flanked by a peasant girl holding a basket laden with bunches of grapes, all set within a guilloche border. The design is executed in a single-colour letterpress typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 CENTIMS CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE GANDESA - MOLT LLEIAL, HEROICA I INMORTAL (Translation: 10 Centimos Municipal Council of Gandesa - Very loyal, heroic and immortal) |
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Gandesa is a small town in southern Catalonia that would become one of the most devastated sites of the entire Spanish Civil War — the Battle of the Ebro, fought within kilometers of the town in the summer and autumn of 1938, left the area nearly destroyed. This note predates that catastrophe by roughly a year, issued when the Republican zone was still functioning administratively and local councils throughout Catalonia were printing their own fractional currency to address a severe shortage of small coin.
The Turró catalog documents hundreds of these municipal emissions; Gandesa's series is among the more obscure, with survival rates reflecting the town's subsequent devastation.