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25 Céntimos Argelaguer
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal d'Argelaguer 25 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Argelaguer 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Dense black letterpress text on a cream ground, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border, with a green geometric guilloche-style underprint filling the background. The text records the issuing authority's formal promise to pay the bearer twenty-five céntims, dated 1 January 1938, in Catalan, arranged in several lines across the centre of the note. |
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Argelaguer is a tiny municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and this note is one of hundreds of small-denomination emergency issues produced by Catalan local councils during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply effectively collapsed. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized these municipal emissions in 1937–38 to keep local commerce functioning when metal fractional currency vanished from circulation entirely.
Turró catalogues it under his comprehensive survey of Catalan war-period paper money — the 196 reference placing it among the smaller, less-documented councils whose print runs were modest and survival rates correspondingly low.