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25 Céntimos Codines del Vallès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Codines del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in red-brown on a cream paper ground and consists entirely of typeset text within a central rectangular panel, itself enclosed by a dense ornamental guilloche border with scalloped inner and outer edges. The issuing authority name and denomination are set in the largest typefaces at the top of the panel, followed by the reimbursement clause and date in smaller italic letterpress. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear at the foot of the panel below their respective role titles, with the printer's imprint running along the bottom margin outside the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CODINES DEL VALLÈS VINT-I-CINC cèntims quantitat reemborsable a la Caixa Municipal, en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament de data 10 de maig del 1937. Codines del Vallès, maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Codines del Vallès Twenty-five Centimos amount reimbursable to the Caixa Municipal, by agreement of the City Council dated May 10, 1937. Codines del Vallès, May 1937) |
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One of thousands of emergency fractional notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain small coin circulation left local authorities printing their own scrip. The Ajuntament de Codines del Vallès — a small town in the Vallès Oriental comarca — did what hundreds of similarly sized municipalities did in 1937: commissioned local or regional printers to produce low-denomination paper to keep daily commerce functional.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona press with anarcho-syndicalist affiliations, which placed it squarely in the political current running through Republican Catalonia at the time. Most of these municipal emissions were demonetized and destroyed after the Nationalist victory in 1939.