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25 Céntimos Empori
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Vila de Empori |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 cts. SERIE A - EMISSIÓ 1937 per supressió de la del 1936 EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA VILA DE EMPORI pagarà al portador VINT-I-CINC CENTIMS EMPORI, 1.er d`Abril del 1937. (Translation: 25 Centimos Series A - Issue 1937 by suppression of the one of 1936 The Municipal Council of the town of Empori will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos Empori, April 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | A single dark blue linear frame borders the note reverse, enclosing a central vignette of an ancient Greek galley under sail rendered as a background illustration, evoking the classical heritage of the Empúries region. Denomination and issuer text are arranged within the framed field in Catalan. The composition is spare and consistent with the utilitarian production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency notes. |
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Empori — a hamlet near the Costa Brava with a population barely in the hundreds — issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War under the same Republican decree of June 1937 that pushed hundreds of Catalan municipalities into printing their own small-change substitutes. The metal coinage had vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937, hoarded or melted, and the central authorities were in no position to supply small denominations reliably.
Imprenta C. Barnés in Palamós handled several of these local Catalan series, which accounts for the visual similarity across notes from nearby municipalities. Turró catalogued this issue as #929.