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25 Céntimos Breda
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Breda (Municipality of Breda) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a master potter seated at a wheel, rendered in green letterpress on a plain ground, evoking the centuries-old ceramic tradition of Breda. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE BREDA' arches across the top in large decorative lettering, flanked by scrollwork ornaments. Two circular guilloche cartouches in the lower corners each carry the denomination '25 Ctms', with series letter and serial number printed in the mid-field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Ctms. GARANTITZAT DE CIRCULACIÓ L`AJUNTAMENT DE BREDA pagarà al portador VINT-i-CINC CÈNTIMS Breda 11 de maig del 1937 (Translation: 25 Centimos Guaranteed circulation The City Council of Breda will pay the bearer Twenty five Centimos Breda May 11, 1937) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — "vales" or "moneda local" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government could not supply sufficient small change and local authorities were left to improvise. Breda, a small town in the Selva comarca of Girona, contracted Tipografia A. Benages in Barcelona to produce this cardboard substitute. The printer handled a significant volume of similar commissions from other Ayuntamientos throughout 1937.
Turró's catalog documents these Civil War municipals exhaustively; #535 places this note within a well-mapped but genuinely scarce series. Breda's small population meant limited production runs.