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25 Céntimos Ciutadilla
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ciutadilla (Municipality of Ciutadilla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ciutadilla cts. 25 cts. ESTÀ GARANTIT ES SEU IMPORT Nº (serial number) JUNY 1937. (Translation: City Council of Ciutadilla 25 Centimos Its amount is guaranteed Nº (serial number) June 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow-toned card stock reverse bearing a single hand-applied octagonal municipal seal in violet ink, centrally placed. The seal contains an inner octagonal frame enclosing a heraldic vignette, with the municipal name inscribed around the outer octagonal border. A small five-pointed star appears to the lower right of the seal impression. |
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Ciutadilla is a village in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That a settlement this small issued its own fractional currency is less surprising than it sounds — the Spanish Civil War created a catastrophic shortage of small change across the Republic, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own emergency notes under a framework loosely tolerated by the Generalitat. Turró catalogues over a thousand such issuers.
The official stamp is the only security measure, which was typical for these village emissions. Forgery was rarely the concern; local acceptance was.