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10 Céntimos Vallcebre
| Issuer | Vallcebre, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT DE VALLCEBRE Pagarà al portador la quantitat de DEU CÈNTIMS Segons acord Municipal del 10 d`Octubre del 1937 10 cts. (Translation: The City Council of Vallcebre Will pay the bearer the amount of Ten Centimos According to Municipal agreement of October 10, 1937 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress text and vignettes printed in reddish brown on a light pink ground. A rabbit and a squirrel, animals native to the local area, are illustrated as the principal design elements. The mandatory local currency declaration and denomination value are set out in Catalan text. |
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Vallcebre is a small mountain municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like dozens of similar townships, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never replaced by a Republican supply chain under severe strain.
The printer, El Secretariat Català, produced notes for numerous small Catalan municipalities during this period, functioning as a kind of regional clearinghouse for emergency scrip. Turró catalogues this issue as #2650, placing it within a well-documented but sprawling body of wartime local issues that remain actively collected as a group.