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10 Céntimos Noves de Segre
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Noves de Segre (Municipality of Noves de Segre) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on white paper, the obverse presents a central vignette of a bare-chested male worker holding a mallet and leaning against the coat of arms of Catalonia. A rectangular border frames the composition, with the issuing authority and face value inscriptions arranged around the vignette in letterpress type. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 CÈNTIMS De curs obligatori en tot aquest terme municipal 10 CTS. (Translation: 10 Centimos Mandatory currency throughout this municipality 10 Centimos) |
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Noves de Segre is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coinage supply collapsed. The Republican government had effectively lost control of small-change distribution by mid-1937, leaving local councils to fill the gap themselves — often with whatever printer was available.
The C.A.M. imprint links this note to a Barcelona operation that produced emergency issues for numerous Catalan municipalities during the same period, which makes surviving examples relatively identifiable but does nothing to explain away the chronic ink quality problems common to wartime rush jobs from that press.