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25 Céntimos Botarell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Botarell (Municipality of Botarell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in dark brown on an orange-tinted paper with a light geometric guilloche underprint. The issuer's name appears in bold capitals along the top within a double-rule border frame, with the denomination numeral and series designation to the lower right. A circular violet official stamp of the municipality is applied to the right side. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BOTARELL VAL per VINT-I-CINC cèntims al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Setembre del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Botarell Voucher for Twenty five Centimos for the sole purpose of facilitating change September 1937) |
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Botarell is a village in the Camp de Tarragona comarca with a population that barely reached 400 in the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — during the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses printed their own emergency fractional notes, collectively known as paper moneda local or "guerra" issues. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually tried to regulate and centralize these emissions, but local issues kept appearing regardless.
Turró catalogued over a thousand distinct Catalan issuers from this period. Botarell's entry is among the more obscure.