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25 Céntimos Barbens
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Barbens |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow underprint of geometric designs enclosed within a linear border frame, with all text in black letterpress. The central legend states the obligation of the municipality to pay the bearer the face value, with the denomination numeral and mandatory-use restriction rendered in a larger typeface. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA CONSTITUCIONAL DE BARBENS |
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Barbens is a small municipality in the comarca of Pla d'Urgell, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village of this size issued its own fractional emergency currency is not unusual for Republican Catalonia — hundreds of municipalities did the same after the Civil War disrupted coin circulation following July 1936. What the note represents in collecting terms is extreme localism: Imprenta Popular in nearby Bellpuig served several of these tiny Urgell-area councils, and their output is identifiable by consistent typeface and layout choices across multiple issuers.