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10 Céntimos Torroella de Montgrí
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torroella de Montgrí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in green ink, the face is framed by a simple ornamental border enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Torroella de Montgrí to the left and the full text of the authorising council resolution arranged in a compact, utilitarian typeset layout. No serial number appears on this side, consistent with the austere production standards typical of Spanish Civil War local emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet ink, the reverse centres the large bold numeral '10' within a symmetrical vignette of two stylised leafy branches splayed outward from a central spine, with the denomination 'CENTIMS' set in bold capitals immediately below. A red serial number is printed at the top of the note above the vignette. |
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Torroella de Montgrí is a small town in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small change that followed the collapse of normal coin circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to the regions forced local councils — many of them now run by anarchist or leftist committees — to print their own. These municipal emissions were technically irregular but widely tolerated.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 such Catalan issues, which gives some sense of how atomized the problem became.