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25 Céntimos Avinyó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Avinyó |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | A teal letterpress border of repeating diamond-and-dot geometric motifs frames the note on all sides. At centre, a vignette of a worker in an agricultural scene with a sunrise and building in the background is overprinted by a red oval official municipal stamp. The denomination '25 CENTIMS' appears in teal at upper centre, with the issuer name 'Consell Municipal d'Avinyó' on a teal rule below flanked by two small stars, and facsimile signatures of the Mayor and Finance Councillor at lower left and right respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in teal letterpress on a plain paper ground. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal d'Avinyó' is set in large block letters at upper left, each word separated by a double horizontal rule, with a small square ornament below. The large numeral '25' and the denomination 'cèntims' occupy the right half of the note, while a serial number within a rectangular frame appears at lower right and the redemption clause runs along the bottom edge. |
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Avinyó is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War — a direct consequence of the Republic's chronic small-change shortage after 1936. Metal coinage had largely disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving local councils scrambling to print their own substitutes.
Turró's cataloguing of this piece as #252 places it within the broader Catalan municipal emissions systematically documented after the war. The two signatures — Careta and Agramunt — almost certainly represent the municipal treasurer and the alcalde, or some equivalent pairing of local administrative authority.