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25 Céntimos Calella
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calella (Municipality of Calella) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Calella occupies the central vignette, enclosed within decorative borders. The background carries a panoramic view of the local coastline and promenade, with the Calella lighthouse rendered on the hillside above. The overall composition reflects a modest letterpress execution typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTIMS AJUNTAMENT de CALELLA VAL PER VINT I CINC CÈNTIMS Octubre 1937 (Translation: 25 Centims City Council of Calella Valid for Twenty-Five Centims October 1937) |
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Calella's 25 céntimos emergency note belongs to the vast network of locally issued paper money that flooded Catalonia and the rest of the Republican zone from 1936 onward, after hoarding and the wartime drain on metallic currency left ordinary commerce effectively without small change. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized municipalities to issue their own paper fractional currency, which is why hundreds of towns — Calella among them — produced notes that were legally valid only within their own boundaries.
Printed by a local press just streets from the issuing authority, Turró#603 is firmly in the lower-value tier of the series, where survival rates tend to be poor precisely because the notes circulated hardest and were worth least to save.