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25 Céntimos Cardedeu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cardedeu (Municipality of Cardedeu) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, the crowned coat of arms of Barcelona set within a diamond lozenge, framed by elaborate foliate scrollwork vignette; below the arms, the large numeral '25' in bold type within a square cartouche. To the right, the issuer's name in large letterpress type, followed by the bearer clause and face value '25 cènts.' in prominent numerals, with three manuscript signatures below their respective titles (El President, L'Interventor, El Dipositari). The entire note is printed in green on cream paper, with a geometric guilloche border of diamonds and circles running along all four edges. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of the large bold numeral '25' enclosed within a rectangular frame with fine guilloche underprint, flanked on either side by ornamental scroll cartouches. The central motif is surrounded by four radiating guilloche rosette lobes in green, creating a symmetrical, medallion-like composition. The denomination legend 'CENTIMS' appears in letterpress to the left and right of the central frame, with a serial number printed in black below. |
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Cardedeu is a small town in the Vallès Oriental comarca, northeast of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency after the gold and silver coinage essentially vanished from circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply small-denomination coins created a vacuum that local councils, trade unions, and even individual businesses filled with their own printed pieces — a phenomenon unique in scale to the Spanish conflict.
Gràfiques Unificades in Granollers was a collectivized print shop operating under anarcho-syndicalist management during this period, which accounts for a notable consistency in production quality across several Vallès Oriental municipal issues it handled.