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25 Céntimos El Vendrell
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Vendrell (Municipality of El Vendrell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black on a yellow underprint, centred with a vignette of the Municipal Popular Library building framed within a triumphal laurel wreath. Municipal authority text and denomination are set in bold typeface across the upper and lower registers, with the date of issue appearing along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CENTIMS La Caixa Municipal reemborsarà aquest bitllet per tot el 31 de Desembre del 1938 (Bases aprovades per l`Ajuntament el 24 d`Agost del 1937.) (Translation: 25 Centimos The Municipal Bank will refund this banknote until December 31, 1938. (Bases approved by the City Council on August 24, 1937.)) |
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El Vendrell, a small Catalan municipality south of Tarragona, was among hundreds of Spanish towns that printed emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from rural supply chains by mid-1937. These local emissions, generically called "moneda local" or "bitllets municipals," were technically illegal under Republican monetary law but tolerated by necessity.
Arts Gràfiques Barnadas was a local press, not a specialist security printer, which is exactly what the output looks like under close examination. Paper and ink quality vary considerably across surviving examples of this Turró-catalogued type.