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25 Céntimos Donzell d'Urgell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Donzell d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Arts Gràfiques Ilerda, Lleida, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Reddish-brown and white note with the municipal authority's name in bold lettering occupying the left portion of the face. To the right, a rural vignette rendered in a woodcut-like style shows cattle grazing beneath a large spreading tree beside a stream. The denomination '25 CENTIMS' appears in large characters at centre-left, with printed signature lines for the Alcalde and Secretari Interventor below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ajuntament de DONZELL D'URGELL 25 CTS. (Translation: City Council of Donzell d'Urgell 25 Centimos) |
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Donzell d'Urgell is a hamlet in the Noguera comarca of Lleida province, and in 1937 it had a population of perhaps a few hundred souls. Like dozens of similarly tiny Catalan municipalities, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from local circulation — silver and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished into the war economy.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda produced notes for several of these micro-issuers out of Lleida, which kept print runs small and quality variable. At this scale of issuer, survival in any grade is the primary consideration.