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25 Céntimos Blancafort
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Blancafort (Municipality of Blancafort) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BLANCAFORT El portador acredita d`aquest Ajuntament la quantitat de VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS Blancafort 15 de Setembre 1937 (Translation: City Council of Blancafort The bearer accredits from this City Council the amount of Twenty-five Centimos Blancafort, September 15, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown with a plain border frame. At upper left, the municipal coat of arms of Blancafort is shown, and at upper right, the quartered coat of arms of Catalonia appears. The face value numeral '25' is printed centrally in bold letterpress, accompanied by the denomination 'CENTIMS' below, with the authorising legislative text set in smaller type across the upper portion of the note. A circular control stamp impression is visible at centre. |
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Blancafort is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and this note is a product of the acute small-change crisis that gripped Republican Spain from 1936 onward. As silver and copper coinage disappeared almost immediately after the military uprising — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the disruption — hundreds of Catalan municipalities were forced to print their own fractional paper to keep local commerce moving. The Ajuntament de Blancafort turned to Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc, which produced emergency notes for several villages in the comarca during this period.
Turró catalogs this as #463, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal emergency emission corpus.