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15 Céntimos Cogul
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cogul (Municipality of Cogul) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#848 |
| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream card stock, the obverse carries the issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE COGUL' in bold letterpress across the upper field, separated from the face value inscription 'Val per 15 cts.' by a double rule underline. A solid red disc occupies the left-centre of the note, serving as a rudimentary vignette, while a sequential serial number is printed vertically along the left margin preceded by 'No.' The guarantee clause 'Garantid per la Caixa Municipal' appears in smaller lettering along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise plain cream card stock, bearing a single oval municipal hand-stamp applied in violet-blue ink to the left side, partially legible with the text 'COGUL' around the perimeter and a pictorial device at centre, serving as the sole authentication mark for this emergency issue. |
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Cogul is a tiny municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even today. This note is one of thousands of small-denomination emergency issues produced by Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, when Republican-zone towns faced acute shortages of fractional coinage after silver and copper disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936. Local councils were authorized, then effectively compelled, to fill the gap themselves.
The official stamp is the only security feature — entirely typical of these ajuntament issues, where the physical impression of a municipal seal was considered sufficient authentication for a note likely never traveling more than a few kilometers from where it was printed.