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0.25 Pesetas Guardiola de Bages
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Guardiola de Bages |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design in dark blue ink on plain stock, with the issuer name underlined at the top and a geometric border framing the entire face. The body text presents the payment obligation in Catalan in a formal typographic layout, with the denomination expressed both in numerals and words. The place name and date of issue appear at the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain yellowish card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, after the Republican government's failure to supply enough fractional coinage left local councils printing their own scrip to keep markets functioning. Guardiola de Bages — a small town in the Bages comarca — contracted Imprenta Boixeda in nearby Manresa, a press that handled several such commissions in the region during 1937.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice: it held up better to the friction of daily retail transactions than lighter paper, and was harder to counterfeit with simple means. Catalogued under Turró 1202.