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10 Céntimos Vila-rodona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vila-rodona (Municipality of Vila-rodona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Circular cardboard field displaying the municipal coat of arms of Vila-rodona at center, consisting of a stylized anchor-like symbol with vertical bars above and wavy lines below representing water, flanked on either side by olive or laurel branches. The arms are enclosed within a plain circular border. A curved legend in uppercase Latin letters reads 'AJUNTAMENT DE' across the upper arc and 'VILA-RODONA' across the lower arc, separated by small star or asterisk ornaments at each side. The overall design is typographically simple, consistent with the emergency wartime production of this cardboard token. |
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Vila-rodona is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. The hoarding of metallic coinage — driven by wartime panic and the disappearance of silver and copper into private hands — forced municipal councils to print or stamp their own fractional notes on whatever material was available. Cardboard was common; 45mm is unusually large for a 10-céntimo piece, suggesting it was sized for legibility rather than pocketability.