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5 Centimos Cambrils; Josep Domingo
| Issuer | Josep Domingo (Cambrils) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with dark brown letterpress text. Issuer name JOSEP DOMINGO and locality CAMBRILS appear in bold serif capitals across the upper half; the face value VAL 5 CTS. is set in large bold type in the lower half, flanked by double underscores beneath VAL and CTS. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOSEP DOMINGO CAMBRILS Val 5 cts. (Translation: It's worth 5 Centimos) |
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Cambrils is a small coastal town in Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it briefly became its own monetary authority. Josep Domingo was almost certainly a local merchant or business entity that issued this piece to address the catastrophic small-change shortage that followed the July 1936 uprising — the Republic's fractional coins vanished from circulation almost immediately as hoarding took hold.
AL#2730 places it within Andreu i Llamas's exhaustive cataloguing of Catalan local emergency issues. The thick card stock was a practical response to paper scarcity and the need for something that would survive repeated handling in a village economy.