Catalog
25 Céntimos Arbúcies
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Arbúcies (Municipality of Arbúcies) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Cardboard) |
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| Obverse description | Municipal coat of arms of Arbúcies at left, consisting of a castle tower framed by laurel branches, printed in blue on a light green dotted guilloche underprint. The denomination '25' appears as a green overprint at centre. At lower left, the issuing authority, date, and the name of the alcalde (mayor) Josep Pol are inscribed, with series letter and serial number in contrasting red and blue. |
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| Obverse lettering | Municipi d`Arbúcies Sessió 26-VI-1937 Val per 25 cts. de pta. Arbúcies, 26 juny 1937 L'Alcalde, Josep Pol Sèrie C (Translation: Municipality of Arbúcies Session 26-VI-1937 Voucher for 25 Centimos of Peseta Arbúcies, June 26, 1937 The Mayor, Josep Pol Series C) |
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Arbúcies is a small Catalan municipality in the Selva comarca, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's coin supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to print their own small-denomination notes — the so-called "moneda local" or "moneda de necessitat" — creating a patchwork of hundreds of hyper-local issues, most printed in tiny runs and redeemed or destroyed shortly after the war ended.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such Catalan municipal issues. That this one survives at all is partly luck.