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25 Céntimos Boix de Noguera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Boix de Noguera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#475 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain white paper, enclosed within a double rectangular border of wavy-line guilloche strips running along all four edges. The issuing authority appears in bold gothic lettering at the top, separated from the denomination text by a horizontal rule. The value in Catalan text is set in large display type at centre, with the redemption clause in smaller roman type below, and three signature lines — Alcalde, Dipositari, and Finances — at the foot, with a manuscript signature in violet ink. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 cèntims ANY 1937 CURS OBLIGATORI PER A FACILITAR EL CANVI (Translation: 25 Centimos Year 1937 Mandatory currency to facilitate change) |
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Boix de Noguera is a small municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish townships during the Civil War, it issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These municipal notes, collectively catalogued under the Turró system, were legal only within their issuing locality and often printed in tiny quantities on whatever stock was available.
At this scale of issue, survival is largely accidental. Municipal archives for many Pallars Jussà villages were disrupted or destroyed in the Nationalist advance through the region in 1938.