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25 Céntimos Almenar
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almenar (Municipality of Almenar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress issue on off-white card stock with serrated edges. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament d'Almenar' is printed in bold black type at the top, underlined by a solid rule, with the denomination statement 'VAL per 25 Cts.' centred below. A handwritten serial number and an oval violet official stamp of the municipality appear in the lower portion, alongside the printed caption 'L'Alcalee,' indicating the mayor's signature line. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse on off-white textured card stock with serrated edges, bearing no design, text, or security elements. |
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Almenar is a small municipality in Lleida, Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to printing its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These locally issued paper fractions, known collectively as paper moneda, were produced under Republican-controlled municipal authority with no standardization in format, quality, or quantities between towns.
At 52 × 40 mm on card stock, this is a genuinely tiny piece of fiscal infrastructure — printed for purely transactional necessity and almost never formally redeemed.