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10 Centimos La Bisbal d'Empordà; Ateneu Pi i Margall
| Issuer | Ateneu Pi i Margall (La Bisbal d'Empordà) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer name appears at top underlined by a double rule, followed by the name FROILAN PUIG, a handwritten serial number prefixed by Nº, and the denomination Val 10 cts. in large type at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | ATENEU PI I MARGALL FROILAN PUIG Nº 752 Val 10 cts. (Translation: It's worth 10 Centimos) |
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The Ateneu Pi i Margall was a workers' cultural association in La Bisbal d'Empordà — named for the 19th-century federalist politician and briefly President of the First Spanish Republic, Francisco Pi i Margall. During the Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities and local organizations issued their own fractional emergency currency as Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These ateneu-issued notes occupy an unusual corner of the series: unlike municipal ayuntamiento issues, they carry the political identity of the issuing body directly in the name.
AL#2007 places this among the documented Lleida and Girona-province local issues catalogued by Andreu and Lluís in the standard reference for Catalan guerra civil paper. La Bisbal d'Empordà, a market town in the Baix Empordà comarca, produced several such local issues across different denominations.