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25 Céntimos El Soleràs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de El Soleràs (Municipality of El Soleràs) |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on tan card stock with black ink throughout. The issuing authority name appears in bold uppercase letters at the top centre, separated by horizontal rules from a small downward-pointing triangular ornament below. The denomination legend is set in large bold type at centre, with the guarantee clause in smaller roman lettering along the lower margin. A serial number is printed vertically along the left edge, and a rectangular block of horizontal rule ornaments occupies the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE EL SOLERAS Val per 25 cts. Garantid per la Caixa Municipal (Translation: City Council of El Soleràs Valid for 25 Centimos Guaranteed by the Caixa Municipal) |
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El Soleràs is a small municipality in Les Garrigues, Lleida — population in the hundreds — and like dozens of similarly sized Catalan towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 effectively encouraged local authorities to fill the coin shortage with paper. The centim notes from these tiny municipalities were purely local instruments, rarely accepted more than a few kilometers from their point of issue.
Turró catalogues this series under the broader Catalan wartime municipals. Survival is largely a matter of chance — small print runs, heavy local use, and no formal redemption infrastructure meant most were discarded rather than saved.