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10 Céntimos La Palma de Cervelló
| Issuer | Municipality of La Palma de Cervelló |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned cardboard field with a handwritten or rubber-stamped serial number '457' positioned centrally in the lower portion of the flan. The remainder of the reverse is entirely blank, with no legends, devices, or decorative elements, consistent with the minimal production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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La Palma de Cervelló, a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca of Catalonia, issued emergency cardboard currency during the Spanish Civil War when the Republican zone suffered acute shortages of metal coinage. The central government's inability to supply adequate small change forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own fractional currency — locally called moneda local or paper moneda — beginning in 1936. Most issues were produced in extremely limited quantities for purely local use and saw rapid destruction through circulation.
The Turró catalogue documents over 2,000 such municipal issues from Catalonia alone, and La Palma de Cervelló's series is among the more obscure survivals.