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25 Céntimos Alfarràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Alfarràs (Municipality of Alfarràs) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green ink on cream-coloured card stock, the obverse carries the issuing authority's name in two lines of bold block lettering across the upper portion, beneath which a small decorative vignette appears at centre. To the upper right, a group of four vertical bars serves as a rudimentary control mark. The denomination is stated in large letterpress text across the middle of the note, with a hand-stamped serial number prefixed by 'No' along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALFARRAS Valor 25 cts. No [serial number] (Translation: City Council of Alfarràs / Value 25 Centimos / No [serial number]) |
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Alfarràs is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War to address the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. The Republican government's wartime economy hemorrhaged small change — hoarding, melting, and simple supply collapse made coins functionally extinct in daily commerce by 1936–37. Local councils stepped in with emergency issues, some printed, some rubber-stamped, some handwritten on whatever material was available.
The Turró catalog remains the authoritative reference for these Catalan municipals. At 50 × 42 mm, this is among the smallest paper instruments of the entire Civil War series.