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25 Céntimos Castellsarroca
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellsarroca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 107 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE CASTELLSARROCA 25 CÈNTIMS DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE CASTELLSARROCA (Translation: Municipal Council of Castellsarroca 25 Centimos Of mandatory course throughout the entire Municipal district of Castellsarroca) |
| Reverse description | A rural vignette occupies the central field, illustrating a farmer tending vineyards among grapevines, with a cornfield and grain spikes also represented — reflecting the principal agricultural activity of the municipality. The council name and denomination are printed in the surrounding text areas. The composition underscores the local economic identity typical of Catalan wartime municipal emergency notes. |
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Castellsarroca is a tiny municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small Republican-held towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. The hoarding of metal — copper and silver alike — was near-universal, and the central Republican government was slow to fill the gap, leaving local councils to print their own solutions.
The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these Catalan municipal notes, which accounts for the family resemblance across many different issuing towns. Turró's catalogue documents the full typology; #762 places this squarely in a well-mapped but genuinely scarce series, as surviving examples from the smallest municipalities were rarely saved in quantity.