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25 Céntimos Castellnou de Seana
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellnou de Seana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 93 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue ink, enclosed within a linear rectangular border with dotted corner ornaments. The central field carries the issuing authority and denomination text arranged in multiple lines against a dotted guilloche-style background pattern. The date of issue, December 1937, appears at the foot of the text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLNOU DE SEANA VAL DE 25 CENTIMS circulació obligatòria, dintre la població garantit per l`Ajuntament. Castellnou de Seana, desembre del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Castellnou de Seana Voucher for 25 Centimos mandatory circulation, within the population guaranteed by the City Council. Castellnou de Seana, December 1937.) |
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Castellnou de Seana is a small municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and this fractional note belongs to the vast Republican emergency currency issued during the Civil War under the decree that authorized Catalan municipalities to produce their own small-denomination paper when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. Hundreds of *ajuntaments* — many far smaller than Castellnou — commissioned local print shops to produce these notes, and Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled a significant number of them across the region.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand distinct municipal issues from Catalonia alone, which makes the series extraordinary in its fragmentation. Individual print runs for villages this size were typically tiny, and survival rates vary wildly.