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25 Céntimos Baélls
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Baélls |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie Ch- No 33 Consejo Municipal de BAELLS VALE por VEINTICINCO Cts. (Translation: Series Ch- No. 33 / Municipal Council of Baells / Voucher for / Twenty-Five Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BAELLS |
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Baélls is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Berguedà, Catalonia, with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — forced hundreds of municipalities, even the smallest, to print their own emergency fractional notes. This is one of those. The Consejo Municipal issues from villages this size were typically produced locally on whatever stock was available, often hand-stamped rather than formally printed, and many survive in extremely limited numbers simply because so few were ever made.