10 Céntimos Gandesa

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.