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25 Céntimos Castelló de Farfanya
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castelló de Farfanya |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 cts. AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLÓ DE FARFANYA El Dipositari d'aquest Ajuntament, satisfarà al portador la quantitat de VINT-I-CINC cèntims en moneda corrent del Banc d'Espanya. Castelló de Farfanya, 17 de març de 1937. Alcalde, Dipositari, Finances, (Translation: 25 Centimos. City Council of Castelló de Farfanya. The Depositary of this City Council will satisfy the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centimos in current currency of the Bank of Spain. Castelló de Farfanya, 17 March 1937. Mayor, Depositary, Finance.) |
| Reverse description | Plain white field with black letterpress printing. At upper left, a stylised Catalan coat of arms vignette within a decorative cartouche shows the four vertical bars of the Senyera. The issuing authority's name is set in two centred lines at upper right, with the series letter 'SERIE C' and serial number 'Núm.' printed in the middle register. At the foot, the mandatory-circulation legend appears at left and the printer's imprint at right. |
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Castelló de Farfanya is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed entirely. The Turró catalogue documents these municipally-issued notes extensively — #750 places this squarely within that documented wave of wartime local emissions.
Printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, a workers' collective print shop operating under anarcho-syndicalist management during the revolutionary period, which was a common arrangement for smaller municipalities that lacked their own printing infrastructure.