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25 Céntimos Bisaura de Ter
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bisaura de Ter |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper ground carrying a light guilloche underprint, enclosed within a simple ornamental rectangular border. The denomination '25 Cts.' is set in large bold letterpress type at upper left, with a handwritten serial number at upper right. Three lines of Catalan text below state the mandatory legal tender status of the issue within the municipality and the guarantee of the full emission by bank deposit. |
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| Signature(s) | P. Cuyàs (El Secretari-Interventor), P. Freixer (L'Alcalde) and I. Gurt (El Depositari) |
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Bisaura de Ter is a tiny municipality in the Osona comarca — the kind of place that would barely register in a national currency history were it not for the Republican government's 1937 decree compelling local authorities across Catalonia to issue their own fractional emergency currency. The central banking system had effectively collapsed for small transactions, and bronze coinage had vanished from circulation almost entirely. Three signatures on a note from a village this small means it exhausted its entire relevant administrative staff to authorize the issue.
Printed by El Secretariat Català in Barcelona, which handled a significant volume of these municipal Catalan war issues.