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25 Céntimos Fonts de Sacalm
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Fonts de Sacalm |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Fonts de Sacalm is positioned at the top centre, flanked by the issuer's name in bold letterpress across the upper register. A central text panel, framed by ruled borders, carries the legal tender declaration, series letter, and serial number. The denomination appears in a circular cartouche at the lower left, with three manuscript signatures and their respective titles below the main text. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette presents a detailed view of the Fonts de Sacalm School Group building, rendered in a fine engraved style against a lightly cross-hatched background. The denomination of 25 cts. appears in circular cartouches at the upper left and lower right corners, providing a balanced frame. The guarantee inscription is set in large decorative type across the lower half, with the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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Fonts de Sacalm — a small spa town in the Girona comarca known mainly for its mineral water bottling — issued this note during the anarchist and republican municipal administrations that took over local governance across Catalonia following the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own fractional currency that year and the next, driven by a genuine coin shortage as silver and copper were hoarded or melted.
Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia. handled a substantial volume of these wartime municipal emissions out of Barcelona, which accounts for the relative consistency in print quality across many small-town Catalan issues of this period despite their chaotic political origins.