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25 Céntimos Ascó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ascó |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#242 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text on pink card stock, entirely without vignette or decorative underprint. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold at upper left with 'CENTIMS' below, while the issuing authority 'El Consell Municipal d'Ascó' is set in spaced capitals across the upper right. The written-out value 'Vint-i-cinc Céntims' occupies the centre in large italic type, with a violet oval official stamp of the Consejo Municipal de Ascó applied at lower left alongside the manuscript caption 'El Cap del Consell Municipal,' and a serial number with the date 'Juliol - Any 1937' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, consisting of plain pink card stock with no text, vignette, or other markings. |
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Ascó is a small municipality in the Ribera d'Ebre comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional currency when coin supplies collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal issues of this period were typically authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's broader framework permitting municipal money, though the actual production was local — often a printshop, a rubber stamp, and whatever card stock was available.
Turró's catalog remains the essential reference for these Catalan municipals, and the 242 assignment places this squarely within a well-documented but physically fragile series. Card stock issues from small municipalities survive poorly; the material was never meant to last.