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15 Céntimos Horta de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Horta de Terra Alta |
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| Value | 15 Centimos (0.15 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely letterpress-printed in red-orange on plain cream card stock, the face is enclosed within a border of repeating diamond (rhombus) ornaments. The issuer's name appears in two lines — 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE' above and 'HORTA DE TERRA ALTA' below — separated by a decorative dash-and-rule motif, with a dotted rule dividing the upper inscription block from the denomination area. The denomination '15' in large numerals is centred in the lower portion, flanked by 'VAL' to the left and 'CTS.' to the right. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Horta de Terra Alta — known today simply as Horta de Sant Joan — issued these tiny emergency notes during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized municipalities across Catalonia to produce their own fractional currency to address the immediate collapse of coin circulation. The Republican peseta had effectively vanished into mattresses and hoards within weeks of the July uprising.
At this size and on card stock, the notes blur the line between paper money and cardboard token. The official stamp was the only meaningful authentication barrier — a measure that invited counterfeiting but was the practical limit of what a rural Aragonese town council could manage in wartime.