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10 Céntimos Vallalta del Maresme
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vallalta del Maresme |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal Vallalta del Maresme Val per 10 cèntims 1 Desembre del 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council Vallalta del Maresme Voucher for 10 Centimos December 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain blue-grey card stock, entirely unprinted save for a circular violet municipal ink stamp applied off-centre, partially legible with the word 'MUNICIPAL' visible along the upper arc; a handwritten serial number appears in violet ink to the left of the stamp. |
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Vallalta del Maresme is a tiny municipality in the Maresme comarca of Catalonia, and this 10 céntimos note is a product of the Republican zone's wartime monetary collapse. From mid-1936 onward, hoarding of metallic currency created acute small-change shortages across Loyalist-held Spain, forcing hundreds of municipalities — including ones with populations well under a thousand — to print their own emergency fractional currency. The legal framework was loose enough that essentially any local council with access to a printer could issue.
Turró 2637 places this among the rarest category of Civil War locals. Vallalta del Maresme issued in very limited quantities, and survival rates for thick-card municipals from this region are low.