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25 Céntimos Cabassers
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cabassers (Municipality of Cabassers) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in greenish-blue ink on cream paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuing authority "AJUNTAMENT DE CABASSERS" is set in large capitals along the top, separated from the body text by a horizontal rule with a small ornamental device at centre. The denomination "VAL per 25 cèntims" appears at lower left, with the redemption clause and place-date "Cabassers, Febrer del 1937" at right. Two manuscript signatures occupy the lower portion, inscribed beneath the printed titles "L'ALCALDE" and "EL DIPOSITARI". |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper ground printed in greenish-blue ink, bearing the series letter and serial number at upper left and right respectively. A printed impression of the coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya is centred on the note, serving as the sole decorative and authenticating device on this face. |
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Cabassers is a small village in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona province, and this 25 céntimos note is among the hundreds of municipal emergency issues that flooded Catalonia and the rest of Republican Spain in 1937 once the Civil War had drained conventional coin from circulation entirely. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized local councils to produce their own fractional currency that year, which is why so many tiny municipalities — Cabassers among them — suddenly found themselves commissioning print runs from regional shops like Solé in Tarragona.
The Turró catalogue, the essential reference for these Spanish Civil War locals, assigns this note #549, placing it within a well-documented but still frequently incomplete body of issues from the Priorat region.