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25 Céntimos Baix Montseny
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Baix Montseny |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 82 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Left third occupied by a bold letterpress vignette of the municipal coat of arms of Baix Montseny, enclosed within a shield and surmounted by a crenellated tower, with the circular legend AJUNTAMENT DE BAIX MONTSENY running along the border. The right portion carries handwritten-style script text acknowledging the bearer's entitlement, with the face value VINT-I-CINC CENTIMS set in large bold type against a light blue guilloche underprint of interlaced geometric lines. Three manuscript signatures appear below, attributed to L'Alcalde, El Conceller de Finances, and El Dipositari, with the printer's imprint at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | VAL 25 CENTIMS Bitllet de curs local obligatori (Translation: Worth 25 Centimes Mandatory local currency note) |
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Baix Montseny is not a town but a comarca-level grouping in the Vallès Oriental, and the joint municipal issue reflects the Republican government's 1937 authorization allowing local authorities — individually or collectively — to produce small-denomination emergency paper to relieve the acute coin shortage caused by hoarding and metal requisitioning during the Civil War. Thousands of these *bitllets locals* were produced by municipalities across Catalonia, many through cooperative printing arrangements exactly like this one.
Tip. El Secretariat Català was a Barcelona printer closely associated with Catalanist cultural and political publishing, not a specialist security printer. The absence of anti-counterfeiting sophistication was largely irrelevant at these denominations.