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10 Céntimos La Jonquera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Jonquera (Municipality of La Jonquera) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1280 |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on light blue card stock, the face bears a geometric border frame enclosing the municipal issuing authority and denomination text. The inscription is arranged centrally within the framed field, with no pictorial vignette. The overall design is austere, consistent with wartime emergency local currency production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is blank light green card stock, bearing only a faint embossed or blind-stamp impression of a circular municipal seal partially visible near the lower centre, consistent with authentication practice on Spanish Civil War emergency issues. |
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La Jonquera sits at the French border on the main road through the Pyrenees — during the Civil War, that location made it a transit point of real strategic importance. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities, the Ajuntament issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1936–37 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coinage hoarded at the outbreak of fighting. These municipal issues were locally authorised under the Generalitat de Catalunya's broad sanction of community-level monetary improvisation.
Turró 1280 places this among the documented La Jonquera emissions, though surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon — border-zone municipalities saw high turnover and physical attrition of circulating paper.