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10 Céntimos Torrecampo
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Torrecampo |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress printed in black on plain cream paper stock within a rectangular decorative border incorporating Art Nouveau-style corner ornaments with geometric and foliate motifs and small circular devices at the lateral midpoints. The issuer's name is set in bold type across the upper register, separated from the body text by a ruled line, with the denomination numeral in large bold type at centre. A guarantee clause in smaller type occupies the lower right portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Torrecampo Pagará al portador 10 Céntimos Valor garantido (Translation: Municipal Council of Torrecampo Will pay the bearer 10 Centimos Guaranteed value) |
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Torrecampo is a small municipality in the north of Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional paper during the Civil War years when Republican-zone coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. These consejo municipal notes were purely local instruments — accepted in the immediate locality, worthless ten kilometers away, and generally issued in tiny quantities that make even used survivors genuinely uncommon.
The absent Gari catalogue number suggests documentation for this particular emission remains incomplete, which is not unusual for the smaller Andalusian pueblos whose wartime paper records were largely lost or destroyed after 1939.