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25 Céntimos Argentona
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Argentona |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 70 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Oval vignette to the left bearing a laureate female bust in left profile, rendered in letterpress in red on cream paper. The central field carries the issuer's name in ornate script above the large denomination numeral '25 CENTIMS', beneath which a reimbursement clause is printed in smaller type. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Conseller de Finances, the Secretari, and the President respectively. A guilloche-patterned border frames the note on all four sides, with the numeral '25' repeated in the corners. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Burriac Castle set against a landscape background, flanked by the four vertical bars of the Catalan coat of arms rendered as decorative columns. The denomination and issuer's name are printed above and below the central image within a guilloche border repeating the numeral '25' at the corners. |
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Argentona's municipal council issued this note — along with a broader series of local emergency paper — during the acute coin shortage that plagued Republican Catalonia in 1937. The disappearance of metallic currency from circulation was driven by hoarding, wartime disruption, and the collapse of normal commercial supply chains. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities turned to their own printers to fill the gap, and Bassa i Pagès in Barcelona handled a significant portion of that regional output.
The Conseller de Finances signature field is unsigned on most surviving examples, suggesting the position was either vacant or the third signatory's name was never consistently applied before distribution.