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15 Céntimos Terrassa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Terrassa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 15 Centimos (0.15 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TERRASSA 15 CENTIMS VAL PER QUINZE CÈNTIMS DE PESSETA, QUANTITAT REEMBORSABLE I GARANTIDA AMB LA RESERVA QUE DEL CIRCULANT RESTA DIPOSITADA A LA BANCA LOCAL. TERRASSA, NOVEMBRE DEL 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Terrassa 15 Centimos It is valid for Fifteen Centimos of peseta, an amount refundable and guaranteed with the remaining reserve of the circulating currency deposited in the local Bank. Terrassa, November 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on white paper within a single-line rectangular border, the reverse carries a vignette of the winged god Mercury in stylised profile, an allusion to the city's commercial and industrial tradition, accompanied by the mandatory circulation clause and issue details in letterpress typography. |
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Terrassa's wartime municipal small change issues were a direct consequence of the Republican government's chronic coin shortage after 1936 — silver and copper had effectively disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own fractional paper. The Consell Municipal de Terrassa was among the more prolific local issuers, producing multiple denominations across the conflict years.
Printed locally by Arts Gràfiques E. Garriga, this note never left Terrassa in any meaningful sense. Municipal emergency currency of this type was invalidated and largely destroyed at the war's end, which is why intact survivors turn up almost exclusively in collector hands rather than from old wallets.