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5 Céntimos Malgrat
| Issuer | Malgrat, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Municipal coat of arms at left, accompanied by a vignette of the Winged Victory of Samothrace framed by olive and oak branches. The overall design is rendered in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War emergency municipal issues. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a map of Catalonia divided into its nine administrative regions. At left, a portrait of Francesc Macià i Llusà (1859–1933), first President of Catalonia, and at right, a portrait of Lluís Companys i Jover (1882–1940), President of the Generalitat de Catalunya at the time of issue. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when Republican-zone commerce collapsed almost entirely at the fractional level. The central government couldn't supply enough coin, so individual towns, cooperatives, and even local committees filled the gap themselves — legally endorsed under a 1937 Generalitat decree but wildly inconsistent in execution.
Malgrat, a small coastal town in the Maresme, issued these céntimos notes for purely local use. Turró catalogues them as scarce survivors; most circulated hard and briefly before becoming worthless after Franco's monetary consolidation.