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25 Céntimos Caldes de Malavella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Caldes de Malavella |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#595 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream field bordered on both vertical margins by a column of teal-green diamond lozenges forming a decorative frame. The text is printed in dark green letterpress, centred in three lines. Below the main legend appear three signature lines above three handwritten signatures, corresponding to the Mayor (L'Alcalde), the Secretary-Comptroller (El Sectri. Interventor), and the Treasurer (El Dipositari). |
| Reverse lettering | VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el terme municipal L'Alcalde, El Sectri. Interventor, El Dipositari, (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipality The Mayor, The Secretary-Comptroller, The Treasurer) |
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Caldes de Malavella is a small spa town in Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small coinage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-war. These local emergency issues, catalogued collectively under the Turró reference system, were legal only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
At this scale of local issue, survival rates are erratic. Notes from minor Catalan towns were rarely saved systematically, and many were redeemed or simply discarded once the Nationalist administration invalidated Republican-era municipal currency after 1939.