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25 Céntimos Castellserà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellserà (Municipality of Castellserà) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a medieval stone watchtower with battlements, set against a rural landscape with rolling fields and stylized clouds, rendered in green letterpress. The denomination numeral '25' appears in the upper right corner, with 'cèntims' below it. The issuing authority inscription runs along the lower portion of the note, with the printer's imprint 'GRAFOS COL·LECTIVITZADA' at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Vignette composed of agricultural and industrial symbols including bales of alfalfa, a sheaf of wheat, a cogwheel, and a mallet, collectively representing the local economy of farming and industry. The denomination appears in plain text at the centre of the note. |
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Castellserà is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia — during the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns issued their own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These ajuntament notes filled the void left by hoarded and melted metal. Grafos, by then operating as a collectivized press under CNT-FAI control, handled an enormous volume of this municipal scrip out of Barcelona.
Turró catalogues over a thousand distinct Catalan Civil War issues; #766 places this squarely in that documented but often overlooked corpus of hyperlocal wartime paper.