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5 Céntimos Castellgalí
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellgalí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white card stock printed in blue letterpress. A single rectangular border frames the text field, within which the issuing authority name appears in three centred lines at top, separated by a short rule from the denomination statement in bold type at foot. No vignette or ornamental underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Castellgalí Val 5 cèntims (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellgalí It`s worth 5 Centimos) |
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Castellgalí is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's small-denomination coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not replaced fast enough to meet demand. These local emissions, generically called "moneda local" or "paper moneda," were authorized under a 1936 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, which gave municipal councils the legal cover to print what the central system could not provide.
At 40 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest format notes produced anywhere in the conflict — barely larger than a postage stamp, printed on card stock rather than banknote paper precisely because dedicated currency paper was not available to a village council in 1937.