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5 Céntimos Bagà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bagà (Municipality of Bagà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAGÀ reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINC CÈNTIMS acord del dia 6 de novembre de 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Bagà recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Five Centimos agreement of November 6, 1937 Mandatory course throughout the municipality) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 CÈNTIMS (Translation: 5 Centimos) |
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Bagà is a small mountain town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable. These local issues, catalogued collectively under the broader *bitllets locals* documentation efforts, were produced under wildly varying conditions: some by proper printers, others by local workshops with whatever materials were at hand.
Cardboard construction is typical of the poorer-resourced municipal issues, and Bagà's note falls squarely in that category. Turró 263 places it among the documented survivors, though the print run and redemption history for this specific emission remain unrecorded.