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25 Céntimos Collsuspina

Issuer Ajuntament de Collsuspina
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Obverse description Blue-green letterpress note printed on a fine mosaic guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT DE COLLSUSPINA' appears in bold serif lettering along the top, with the large denomination numeral '25 CTS.' centered below. A geometric ornamental border of interlocking scroll motifs frames the note, and two manuscript signatures appear beneath the printed role designations 'L'Interventor' and 'L'Alcalde', with the printer's imprint 'Imp. ANGLADA. - VIC' at the lower right margin.
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Reverse lettering AYUNTAMIENTO CONSTITUCIONAL DE COLLSUSPINA
(Translation: Constitutional City Council of Collsuspina)
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Collsuspina is a tiny municipality in the Moianès comarca of Catalonia — population well under a thousand even today. During the Spanish Civil War, the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage drove hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own emergency paper currency, the so-called "moneda local." Ajuntament de Collsuspina was among the smallest communities to do so, which makes any surviving example inherently scarce simply by virtue of the limited print run a village of that size would have required.

Imprenta Anglada in Vic printed for numerous nearby municipalities during this period, giving notes from the region a recognizable if modest typographic character. Turró 862 is the standard reference for this issue.

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