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10 Céntimos Esparreguera
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Esparreguera (Municipality of Esparreguera) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#943, Gari Mon#611-H |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Esparreguera 10 Cts. (Translation: City Council of Esparreguera 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Oval white cardboard field bearing the municipal coat of arms of Esparreguera printed in red at center. The heraldic device is depicted within a circular cartouche with decorative scrollwork surround, the shield quartered and displaying the traditional arms of the town. The design is executed entirely in red ink stamp on the plain white cardboard ground, with no additional lettering. |
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Esparreguera's cardboard emergency issues were produced during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone faced acute small-change shortages after hoarding stripped metal coinage from circulation almost overnight. Dozens of Catalan municipalities printed their own local fractional currency in 1936–37, with varying degrees of official sanction. Turró catalogues over a thousand such pieces from across the region.
The Ajuntament's issues circulated only within the municipality and were theoretically redeemable — though redemption became academic as Nationalist forces advanced into Catalonia by early 1939.