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25 Céntimos Almacelles
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almacelles (Municipality of Almacelles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper by letterpress, the obverse bears the issuing authority legend 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALMACELLES' across the top centre, with a bold numeral '25' with decorative shading in the upper right. A small vignette in the lower left renders an olive branch with fruit and blossoms, referencing the agricultural identity of the region. Two facsimile signatures within oval flourishes appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Alcalde and the Depositari respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper and centres on a panoramic landscape vignette of the town of Almacelles, with low-lying buildings stretching across the horizon and a tree silhouette at the left margin. A handwritten-style date inscription appears at the top, while the lower portion carries the denomination and mandatory circulation legend in letterpress, with the printer's imprint 'IMP. SOL - LLEIDA' at the lower right. A serial number is present in the lower left. |
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Almacelles is a small agricultural municipality in the Segrià comarca of Lleida province, and this note is one of hundreds of emergency fractional issues produced by Catalan local governments during the early months of the Civil War. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation — partly from hoarding, partly from the sheer disruption of wartime — forced municipalities across Catalonia to print their own low-denomination scrip to make change possible at all.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled a significant number of these municipal emergency issues for the surrounding comarca. The Turró catalogue remains the essential reference for this class of material.