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25 Céntimos Gerri de la Sal
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Gerri de la Sal |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL GERRI DE LA SAL Val 0`25 Pessetes (Translation: Municipal Council Gerri de la Sal Value 0.25 Pesetas) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in red-brown ink, enclosed by a double ruled border at top and bottom. The numeral 25 is set in large bold display type at upper centre, with the word CENTIMS in spaced capitals below. A handstamped circular municipal seal impression appears in the lower centre field. |
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Gerri de la Sal is a village in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of Lleida — remote enough that during the Spanish Civil War its municipal council, like hundreds of others across the Republican zone, had no practical access to small-denomination coinage and resorted to issuing its own emergency paper currency. These local issues, collectively catalogued under the *bitllets locals* system, were legal within their issuing municipality only, and their circulation radius was often no more than a few streets.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for Catalan Civil War emergency issues. Survival rates for Gerri de la Sal material are low — the village's population was tiny, production runs were correspondingly small, and few had reason to preserve them.