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20 Céntimos Marçà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Marçà |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 20 Centimos (0.20 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the Coat of Arms of Catalonia set within a floral border at centre, flanked by guilloche underprint panels in yellow. The entire note is framed by a geometric blue border with repeating ornamental motifs, and the issuer name appears in a header panel underlined by a double rule. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Marçá VAL per 20 cèntims al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Octubre del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Marçá Valid for 20 Centimos For the sole purpose of facilitating change October 1937) |
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Marçà is a small agricultural municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute in 1937. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues to fill the gap, but the practical execution was left entirely to local councils — hence the enormous variation in paper quality, printing standards, and denominations across surviving examples.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a number of these small municipal commissions from the surrounding region. The Turró catalog remains the primary reference for these Catalan war-period locals.