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25 Céntimos Altafulla
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Altafulla (Municipality of Altafulla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#135 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`ALTAFULLA EL PORTADOR ACREDITA D`AQUEST AJUNTAMENT VINTICINC CÈNTIMS ALTAFULLA, 20 NOVEMBRE DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Altafulla The bearer accredits from this City Council Twenty-five Centimos Altafulla, November 20, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The central panel carries the large numeral '25' flanked by two stylised fish in a light green underprint, with 'CÈNTIMS' lettered below. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT D'ALTAFULLA' is printed in bold blue across the top, and a two-line authorisation text runs along the lower margin. Wide decorative borders in deep blue line both vertical edges, rendered in an elaborate floral and foliage woodcut pattern, with the printer's imprint 'Imp. Sugrañes, Tarragona' at the foot. |
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Altafulla is a small coastal municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed. These local issues — known collectively as *moneda local* or *paper moneda* — were authorized under a 1936 Generalitat decree that effectively handed monetary improvisation to any municipality willing to take it on.
Imprenta Sugrañes of Tarragona printed for numerous local authorities in the province, which means the physical production quality is relatively consistent across issues from this region even when the issuing towns were tiny. Turró catalogues this as #135 — a low run, rarely encountered outside Catalan specialist collections.