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25 Céntimos Cogul
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cogul (Municipality of Cogul) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#844 |
| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain card stock, the face carries the issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE COGUL in bold capitals at upper centre, underlined by a double rule, with a solid black circular device to its left. The denomination legend Val per 25 cts. is set in heavy bold type across the lower portion of the face. A vertical serial number runs along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted card stock with a single hand-applied oval municipal rubber stamp in blue ink at centre, enclosing a schematic representation of a castle or fortified building, serving as the official validation seal of the Cogul local authority in accordance with Spanish Civil War-era emergency issue practice. |
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Cogul is a tiny municipality in Les Garrigues comarca, Lleida province — a village that, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, had a population barely exceeding two hundred. Like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish municipalities in 1936–37, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight, hoarded or melted down in the chaos. These local emissions, known collectively as "moneda de necessitat," were produced with whatever materials the town hall had available.
Turró 844 is among the more obscure entries in the Civil War municipal series. The authenticating stamp is the note's only real security — forgery of such hyperlocal scrip was rarely worth the effort.