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25 Céntimos Cardona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cardona (Municipality of Cardona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT de CARDONA SERIE A BON de 25 CENTIMS Creat i garantit per acord Municipal del dia 5 d'Octubre de 1937. Reintegrable en la Caixa Municipal. Cardona 5 d'Octubre del 1937. ALCALDE DIPOSITARI INTERVENTOR SABADELL Y CIA. S.A.C. Glòria 5.a BARCELONA (Translation: CITY COUNCIL OF CARDONA SERIES A BOND OF 25 CENTIMOS Created and guaranteed by Municipal agreement of October 5, 1937. Refundable at the Municipal Treasury. Cardona, October 5, 1937. MAYOR DEPOSITARY CONTROLLER) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the Escoles Escasany (Escasany Schools) building of Cardona, inaugurated in 1925, rendered in a linear engraved style. The architectural composition is centrally positioned within a plain border, with the school's name inscribed below the image. |
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Cardona's wartime municipal issues are among the more obscure emissions of the Spanish Civil War's extraordinary local currency episode. When the Republican government lost effective control of the monetary supply in 1936–37, hundreds of Catalan municipalities filled the vacuum with their own paper, often in tiny denominations to replace hoarded coin. Cardona — a small salt-mining town in the Bages comarca — issued through its ajuntament like many others, relying on Barcelona commercial printers to handle production.
Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia. supplied several municipalities during this period. Turró 678 places this squarely in the documented Catalan emergency series, though surviving examples in unhandled condition are genuinely uncommon given the note's heavy daily-use format and the chaos of the post-1939 suppression, when Republican-era local currency was actively discouraged from being kept.