25 Céntimos Cardona

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.