Catalog
5 Céntimos La Palma de Cervelló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Palma de Cervelló |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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La Palma de Cervelló is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca of Catalonia, and this cardboard piece belongs to the wave of emergency fractional currency — known as moneda de necessitat — issued by hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate supplies of small-denomination coinage after 1936 forced local councils to improvise, producing issues in cardboard, wood, and metal that varied wildly in execution and survival rates.
Cardboard issues from villages of this size circulated hard and deteriorated quickly.