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25 Céntimos Capafonts
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Capafonts |
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| Size | 82 × 38 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red and blue, the obverse centres on an oval guilloche cartouche in blue bearing the denomination '25 Cèntims' in large red letterpress text, with the numeral '25' repeated in red at each lower corner. A serial number prefixed 'Nº' is positioned at the upper right, 'SERIE C' at the lower left, and a circular municipal stamp at the upper centre. The issuer's legend runs across the upper register in a neat typeset band. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CAPAFONTS La Caixa Municipal reintegrará al portador 25 CÉNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Capafonts The Municipal Fund will reimburse the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Capafonts is a village in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached 200 during the 1930s. That it issued its own emergency paper money at all is the point of interest — during the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including the smallest, to print their own fractional scrip. These local emissions are collectively documented under the Turró catalogue, which remains the standard reference for the series.
Villages this small typically ran editions of a few hundred notes at most, printed on whatever stock was available locally.