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10 Céntimos Igualada
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Igualada (Municipality of Igualada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Greenish-blue card stock forms the ground, with the municipal coat of arms and issuer name printed in dark red. The face value is rendered in black, contrasting against the tinted background. The overall design is typographic and utilitarian, consistent with Civil War-era Spanish emergency fractional currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`IGUALADA Val per 10 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Igualada Valid for 10 Centimos) |
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Igualada is a Catalan industrial town in the Anoia comarca, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the hoarding and melting of coins left everyday commerce paralyzed. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local issues in 1937 to fill precisely this gap, and Igualada's series was among the more straightforward of these — no cooperative or union backing, just the ajuntament acting on practical necessity.
At under 50mm across, this is more token than banknote in physical character. The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: thinner paper would have disintegrated quickly in the hands of market traders and shop workers who were the primary users of such small denominations.