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25 Céntimos Castellnou de Bages
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellnou de Bages |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CASTELLNOU DE BAGES reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 25 CTS. Castellnou de Bages, Octubre del 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Castellnou de Bages recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 25 Centimos. Castellnou de Bages, October 1937) |
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| Protection type | Municipal stamp |
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Castellnou de Bages is a tiny municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own small-denomination paper currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The hoarding and melting of copper and silver coinage created an acute shortage of small change, forcing local councils across Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearics to print their own fractional notes — a phenomenon documented in the thousands by Turró's catalogue.
The sole security feature was a municipal rubber stamp, easily forged and largely symbolic. Acceptance depended entirely on local trust, not technical safeguards.