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0.25 Pesetas Camprodon
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Camprodon (Municipality of Camprodon) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark brown ink on cream card stock, enclosed within a rectangular border of stylised Art Nouveau corner ornaments composed of foliate and bamboo-like motifs with circular corner studs. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Camprodon' is set in serif type across the upper field, separated from the central zone by a double rule; the word 'REFUGIATS' appears in a smaller framed panel at centre, flanked to the left by a handwritten serial number. The denomination '0'25 ptes.' is rendered in large bold type occupying the lower portion of the field, with a faint circular official cachet visible at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Camprodon REFUGIATS 0'25 ptes. (Translation: City Council of Camprodon / Refugees / 0.25 Pesetas) |
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Camprodon is a small Pyrenean town in Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local notes — *moneda local* or *bitllets municipals* — filled a genuine transactional void, not a symbolic one. The Ajuntament issued them because market stalls and shops needed change, full stop.
Grafos Col·lectivitzada is worth noting: the Barcelona printing firm had been collectivized by its workers under CNT-FAI control, a common fate for industrial enterprises in the Catalan anarcho-syndicalist zones. The printer itself was a product of the same social upheaval that made these emergency notes necessary.