Catalog
5 Céntimos Cadaqués
| Issuer | Cadaqués, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal CADAQUÉS 5 cèntims Nº (Translation: Municipal Council Cadaqués 5 Centimos No.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on plain light card stock, enclosed within a simple rectangular border. The face value is stated in large numerals at centre, accompanied by the abbreviated denomination, and the full institutional inscription encircles or frames the design. A municipal stamp impression in red authenticates the note. |
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Cadaqués is a small fishing village on the Costa Brava that issued its own emergency scrip during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's centalization of coinage production left municipalities scrambling for small change. Turró catalogs hundreds of these local Catalan emissions; most were produced hastily by regional print shops with whatever card stock was available, and Imprenta Trayter in Figueres served several neighboring towns during this period.
The municipal stamp was the primary — often the only — security measure standing between a legitimate note and a forgery. That it functioned at all reflects less on the technology than on the tight-knit economies of wartime rural Catalonia.