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25 Céntimos Bassella
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bacella (Municipal Council of Bacella) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue ink on cream card stock, enclosed within a rectangular border of parallel ruled lines. The issuer's name "CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BACELLA" runs across the top in spaced capitals above a horizontal rule, with the denomination "Bon de 25 cèntims" set in large bold type below it. The lower portion carries the full authorization text in smaller type, dated Bacella, 1 June 1937, beneath which two manuscript signatures appear — El Caixer (cashier) at left, his signature further enclosed within a hand-drawn oval, and El Secretari-Interventor (secretary-comptroller) at right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 cèntims 25 25 (Translation: 25 25 Centimos 25 25) |
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Bassella is a tiny municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of similarly small Catalan communities, its council issued fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 effectively authorized local bodies to plug the acute shortage of small change that had been strangling daily commerce since mid-1936. The Turró catalogue documents this issue under #314, placing it within the broader corpus of Catalan guerra civil paper.
Production was entirely local — no professional printer, no security features. Notes from municipalities of Bassella's scale were typically printed on whatever card stock the town hall had to hand, which is why thickness and coloration vary even within the same emission.