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25 Céntimos Arbeca
| Issuer | Arbeca, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | ARBECA MONEDA LOCAL 25 cèntims (Translation: Arbeca Local coinage 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted surface with a faint blind-impressed or lightly inked municipal seal and a serial number either typeset or applied by hand, both barely discernible against the card stock. |
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Arbeca is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it resorted to locally printed paper money during the Civil War after metallic coin essentially vanished from everyday trade in 1936–37. These municipal emergency issues — known collectively as paper moneda de necessitat — were produced under wildly varying conditions, and Arbeca's examples reflect that: thick card stock rather than proper banknote paper, dimensions closer to a postage stamp than any conventional denomination.
Turró's catalog remains the essential reference for these Catalan issues, though attribution and survival data for minor municipalities like Arbeca remain incomplete.