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25 Céntimos El Bruc
| Issuer | Ajuntament del Bruc (Municipality of El Bruc) |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cardboard note printed by letterpress, with the issuer name and denomination as the sole design elements. A dotted rectangular border with rounded corners frames the entire face. The text is arranged in three lines across the centre field: issuer name above and denomination below. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DEL BRUC 25 CTS. (Translation: City Council of El Bruc 25 Centimos) |
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El Bruc issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War period, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation forced thousands of Catalan municipalities to print their own locally redeemable notes. These ajuntament-issued pieces were technically illegal under central banking law but were tolerated out of pure necessity.
Turró 539 is among the smaller-format municipal emissions from the comarca of Anoia. The town itself carries outsized historical weight — it was near El Bruc in 1808 where Napoleonic forces were famously repulsed by local irregular fighters, a fact the municipality clearly never let anyone forget.