Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Céntimos Torreperogil
| Issuer | Torreperogil, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in red letterpress. The issuing authority inscription is set in three lines across the upper portion, with the face value numeral in a larger typeface below, underlined by a solid rule extending to the right where the denomination word appears in matching scale. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | El Consejo Municipal de Torreperogil (Jaén) Pagará al portador 10 céntimos (Translation: The Municipal Council of Torreperogil (Jaén) Will pay the bearer 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Torreperogil is a small olive-growing municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia. This note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War local emergency fractional currency — the *billetes de necesidad* — issued between 1936 and 1939 when the Republican zone experienced an acute shortage of metallic coinage, particularly centimos. With the Madrid government unable to supply adequate small change to every town and village in its territory, municipal councils, trade unions, and local committees took matters into their own hands.
The Gari catalog remains the authoritative reference for these Andalusian provincial emissions, and the 1464-B designation suggests at least a second recognized variety for this denomination from Torreperogil. Survival rates for these hyper-local issues vary enormously — some villages printed only a few hundred pieces, others several thousand, and wartime destruction, post-war confiscation, and simple discard have made many near-impossible to locate today.