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25 Céntimos '1 Ral' Cambrils de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cambrils de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| In circulation to | 1937 |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in lilac-pink ink on cream paper within a thin double-rule rectangular border, this Civil War-era emergency note carries the issuing authority 'AJUNTAMENT DE CAMBRILS DE MAR' along the top, with the promise text and large central denomination 'UN RAL' below; the corner '1 RAL' repeats at upper left. Dated 'Cambrils, 21 de Gener del 1937', the lower register provides three signature lines for L'Alcalde, L'Interventor, and El Dipositari, with a manuscript signature in red ink at left and a bold oval municipal stamp of the Vila de Cambrils — bearing a small coat of arms — impressed in red-pink ink at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 RAL AJUNTAMENT DE CAMBRILS DE MAR La Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador UN RAL Cambrils, 21 de Gener del 1937 L'Alcalde, L'Interventor, El Dipositari (Translation: 1 Ral City Council of Cambrils de Mar The Municipal Depository will pay the bearer One Ral Cambrils, January 21, 1937 The Mayor, The Controller, The Depositary) |
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Cambrils de Mar was a small fishing town on the Tarragona coast, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the collapse of small-coin supply in Republican-held territory. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency issues in 1937, which opened the door to hundreds of hyper-local notes of wildly varying quality. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled several of these municipal commissions, making them a recognizable regional producer of what collectors now call the "guerra civil" local series.
The "1 Ral" subtitle is a survival of pre-decimal Spanish monetary vocabulary — the real had been formally obsolete for decades by 1937.