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25 Céntimos Almoster
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almoster |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'ALMOSTER VAL per vint-i-cinc cèntims de pesseta al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi ANY 1937. (Translation: City Council of Almoster Valid for Twenty-five Centimos of Peseta for the sole purpose of facilitating change Year 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse of plain tan cardboard stock, uniform in colour with no text, vignettes, or decorative elements, consistent with the austere wartime emergency issue character of this note. |
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Almoster is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local emissions — called *moneda local* or *vals* — filled a genuine transactional void, not a political one, though the timing and the atmosphere were inseparable from the war.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a number of these municipal commissions across the province, which gives the series a certain regional coherence. Turró#127 is the standard catalog reference for Almoster's 25 céntimos within the exhaustive documentation of Spanish Civil War local issues.