Catalog
5 Céntimos Caldes de Malavella
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Caldes de Malavella |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Pink card stock with perforated edges throughout. All text is printed in black letterpress on the plain pink ground, arranged in three registers: the issuing authority name at top, a black stamped serial number in the centre, and the denomination and purpose inscription at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink card stock with perforated edges, essentially blank apart from a handwritten collector notation in the upper right corner. No printed design or text is present. |
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Caldes de Malavella, a small spa town in Girona province, issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War — part of the vast proliferation of locally produced moneda local that emerged after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing municipalities to fill the acute shortage of small change. Coins had been hoarded almost immediately after July 1936, and the central authorities were slow to respond. Towns issued what they needed.
The Turró catalog reference is unassigned, which typically signals either a late-documented variety or a piece known from very few surviving examples.