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25 Céntimos Caseres
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Caseres |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#684 |
| Obverse description | Cream-toned card stock printed in blue, with a vertical left panel bearing the denomination '25 cts.' in large numerals flanked by a grid-pattern underprint of small squares. The main field carries the issuing authority's name and bearer clause in Catalan letterpress text, with the denomination spelled out in large bold type at centre. A circular violet official stamp of the Ajuntament de Caseres, incorporating a vignette of a bull, is applied at centre-right, alongside a manuscript serial number in red and the date 'Juliol - Any 1937' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | cts. 25 cts. El Consell Municipal de Caseres reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de Vint-i-cinc Cèntims Juliol - Any 1937 El Cap del Consell Municipal. (Translation: 25 Centimos The Municipal Council of Caseres recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centimos July - Year 1937 The Head of the Municipal Council.) |
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Caseres is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and other Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, its local council assumed the right to issue emergency fractional currency when the Republic's own small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely by 1937 — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These municipal notes, collectively catalogued under the Turró system, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's broader framework permitting local bodies to plug the change shortage.
Terra Alta saw some of the war's heaviest fighting in 1938 during the Battle of the Ebro. Notes issued here in 1937 had a very short window of practical use.