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25 Céntimos Calafell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calafell (Municipality of Calafell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de Calafell PAGARA AL PORTADOR Vint-i-cinc cèntims L'Alcalde C. de Finances, MAIG DEL 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Calafell Will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimes The Mayor, Councillor of Finance, May 1937) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Calafell is a small coastal municipality in Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency paper when Republican-zone silver and copper coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a chaotic but documented proliferation of municipal paper — Turró catalogues over a thousand such issues from Catalonia alone.
Arts Gràfiques Barnadas in nearby El Vendrell handled several of these municipal commissions. The only anti-counterfeiting measure was a hand-applied official stamp — a single mark separating legal tender from waste paper in a town of a few thousand people.