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5 Céntimos Espluga Calva
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Espluga Calva (Municipality of L'Espluga Calba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`ESPLUGA CALVA BON CINC CENTIMS CONTRA LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Espluga Calva Bond Five Centimos Against the Caixa Municipal) |
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| Reverse lettering | BON 5 CENTIMS EMISSIO 1er OCTUBRE DEL 1937 AJUNTAMENT D`ESPLUGA CALVA (Translation: Bond 5 Centimos Issue October 1, 1937 City Council of Espluga Calva) |
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L'Espluga Calba is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during 1936–37, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed almost entirely under the pressures of war and hoarding. These local emissions — collectiu or municipal — were authorized under a loose framework that gave town councils extraordinary latitude, resulting in thousands of distinct issues, most produced in very small quantities by local print shops with whatever materials were at hand.
Turró catalogued this emission as #953. Survival rates for Garrigues comarca notes are generally low; the towns were small, the print runs modest, and many surviving examples were lost during the postwar Francoist suppression of anything associated with Republican local governance.