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10 Céntimos Malgrat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Malgrat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Municipal coat of arms positioned to the left, alongside a vignette reproducing the Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture, encircled by a wreath of intertwined olive and oak branches. The overall layout reflects the civic and classical aesthetic typical of Catalan wartime emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MALGRAT 0`10 DEU CENTIMS Segons acord de 26 de Maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Malgrat Ten Centimos According to agreement of May 26, 1937) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republic's inability to supply adequate coinage left local governments scrambling to fill the gap. The Ajuntament de Malgrat — a coastal town north of Barcelona — issued this 10 céntimos piece in 1937 under the same legal framework that authorized hundreds of similar ajuntament-issued paper throughout Catalonia and the Valencian region.
Turró's cataloguing of this series remains the definitive reference precisely because surviving specimens are scattered and condition is wildly inconsistent — these notes circulated hard in wartime and were rarely preserved with any care.