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25 Céntimos Alcover
| Issuer | Alcover, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed cream card stock in black ink. At left, the municipal coat of arms is set within a rectangular frame with an ornamental typographic border; at right, the issuer name appears in two lines divided by decorative flourishes. The denomination is rendered in large bold type across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPI D'ALCOVER Val per 25 cèntims (Translation: Municipality of Alcover Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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Alcover is a small town in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the collapse of small-coin supply in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coinage in circulation forced local councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, producing emergency notes that were technically only valid within their own municipal boundaries.
Printed by Imprenta Solé in Tarragona, which handled a number of these local emergency issues across the province. The official stamp substitutes for more elaborate security, typical of the resource constraints facing small councils at the time.