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25 Céntimos Castellet de Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellet de Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Avant, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in dark green on a salmon-pink ground, enclosed within a broad letterpress border of interlocking scrollwork and stylised floral rosettes. The upper portion carries the issuer's name in large roman lettering, below which the denomination legend and full redemption text appear in three blocks of Catalan script. Three manuscript signatures, attributed respectively to the Alcalde President, the Dipositari, and the Secretari-Comptador, occupy the lower portion of the note, each preceded by its printed title. The printer's imprint appears at the very foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Castellet de Llobregat VAL PER VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS quantitat reemborsable a la Caixa Municipal, en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament de data 22 d'abril del 1937. Castellet de Llobregat, maig del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Castellet de Llobregat Voucher for Twenty-Five Centimos Refundable amount to the Municipal Treasury, by virtue of the agreement of the City Council dated 22 April 1937. Castellet de Llobregat, May 1937.) |
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Castellet de Llobregat is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to address the catastrophic shortage of small coin — silver and copper having been hoarded, melted, or commandeered almost immediately after July 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to the provinces forced local authorities, trade unions, and even individual businesses to fill the gap themselves.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona press associated with the anarcho-syndicalist milieu, which printed emergency notes for several municipalities during this period. Turró catalogs this issue as #720.