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25 Céntimos '1 Ral' Esparreguera
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Esparreguera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre guilloche underprint covers the left two-thirds of the face, over which Catalan text is set in a combination of script and letterpress typefaces. The municipal coat of arms of Esparreguera, printed in red-brown, occupies a circular vignette at the right, enclosed within an ornamental wreath of scrollwork and fruit clusters. The denomination panel at the foot reads 'VAL 0'25 PTES. - UN RAL' in large display type, with the serial number and a small asterisk printed below at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ESPARREGUERA Emissió en substitució moneda fraccionària Garantida per dipòsit de Bitllets del "Banco de España" VAL 0'25 PTES. - UN RAL CURS FORÇÓS EN LA LOCALITAT Març 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Esparreguera Issue in replacement of fractional currency Guaranteed by deposit of "Banco de España" banknotes Voucher 0.25 Pesetas - One Real Forced course in the locality March 1937) |
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Esparreguera is a small town in the Baix Llobregat comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its council issued emergency fractional currency after the Republic's silver and copper coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936. The "1 Ral" designation — an archaism by 1937 — reflects the old quarter-peseta unit that had survived in popular speech long after its official abolition, a linguistic pragmatism that helped locals instantly grasp the note's value without arithmetic.
Printed by Imprenta Bas of Igualada, which handled similar commissions for several nearby councils during the same period. Turró catalogues this under #933.