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25 Céntimos Calaf
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Calaf |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#585 |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a plain background with the Coat of Arms of Calaf, surmounted by a helmet, printed as a central vignette. The denomination and municipal authority are stated in Catalan in the surrounding legends, with a refund clause appearing below the arms. |
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| Reverse lettering | ALCALDIA CONSTITUCIONAL DE CALAF (Translation: Constitutional Mayoralty of Calaf) |
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Calaf is a small town in the comarca of Anoia, inland Catalonia. This 25 céntimos note was issued during the Spanish Civil War, when the breakdown of the Republican monetary supply — particularly the disappearance of small coin from circulation — forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually tried to regularize this chaos, but local issues continued regardless.
At 53 × 37 mm, these municipal emergency pieces are among the smallest paper issues in the entire Turró corpus. Survival rates are erratic — some Catalan local issues are genuinely rare, others surfaced in bulk from old municipal archives decades after the war.