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25 Céntimos Castelldans
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelldans (Municipality of Castelldans) |
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| Size | 59 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock printed entirely in blue ink by letterpress. A double-rule rectangular border frames the face, with the issuer name 'Ajuntament de Castelldans' across the top register, the denomination 'Val 25 Cèntims' in bold text at centre, and the guarantee clause 'Garantit per la Caixa Municipal' below. A manuscript serial number is printed beneath a 'Núm.' inscription in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse on plain unprinted card stock, bearing a partial circular violet ink official municipal stamp at left centre, along with handwritten notations and partial rubber-stamp impressions in the upper area, likely applied for administrative validation purposes. |
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Castelldans is a small municipality in the comarca of Les Garrigues, Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when the Republican government's coin shortage became acute after 1936. The Republican government's removal of silver and copper coinage from circulation — hoarded heavily once war broke out — forced local ayuntamientos to fill the gap themselves, with results ranging from professionally lithographed cards to hand-stamped slips of near-worthless paper.
The Turró catalogue remains the standard reference for these emergency municipals, and 709 places this issue among the smaller, harder-to-document emissions where survival rates are low simply because the issuing body was tiny and the notes were used hard.