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10 Céntimos Sentmenat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sentmenat (Municipality of Sentmenat) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock in a pale lilac-grey tone with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuing authority appears at the top in bold uppercase across three lines, followed by the validity clause and the large numeral denomination at centre, with the denomination word in smaller type to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank card stock bearing a diagonal red letterpress municipal stamp reading AJUNTAMENT DE SENTMENAT in circular form, with a hand-applied black serial number at centre. |
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Sentmenat is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, and this 10 céntimos emergency issue belongs to the extraordinary proliferation of locally printed fractional currency that swept Catalonia in 1936–37. When the Civil War disrupted coin supply almost overnight, hundreds of Catalan towns — many with fewer residents than a city block — were authorized under the Generalitat's emergency decree to print their own small-denomination notes. Sentmenat was among the smallest issuers.
Turró's catalogue documents over 2,000 such local issues, and the sheer volume is precisely why individual pieces from obscure municipalities command collector interest today.