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25 Céntimos Bagà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bagà (Municipality of Bagà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The face is dominated by a rectangular ornamental border enclosing the full text of the municipal resolution, printed in letterpress. The four-bar Catalan coat of arms (Senyera) appears as a vignette on the left side, flanking the central legend that authorizes the note. The overall layout is typographic in character, with the issuing authority text arranged in multiple registers within the decorated frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is covered entirely by a dense guilloche underprint of interlocking scrollwork and rosette patterns in blue-green tones, forming a geometric all-over design. At the center, a dark circular medallion bearing the bold numeral '25' in white is set within a radiating starburst guilloche ring. Below the numeral, the denomination legend is printed in capital letters within the medallion, with a small red control stamp visible in the lower right corner. |
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Bagà is a small town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal controlled these emissions locally, and accountability was minimal — series were often printed in tiny quantities by whatever press was available, sometimes a local print shop with no experience in security printing whatsoever.
Turró catalogues this emission as #261, placing it within a documented but sparsely surviving series. Many Catalan municipal notes from 1937 were destroyed, lost, or simply wore out in a matter of months. Survivor rates for small Berguedà towns are low.