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25 Céntimos Guimerà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guimerà (Municipality of Guimerà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed entirely in red ink on plain card stock, the obverse bears the issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Guimerà' in bold italic type across the upper field, set off by a double rule beneath. The denomination '25 Cèntims' appears in larger type within the central text block, flanked above by the authorization phrase 'Val per' and below by the date 'Novembre 1937.' in smaller italic lettering. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted plain card stock, carrying no design, text, or decorative elements, consistent with the austere production methods typical of Catalan wartime emergency currency issues of 1936–1939. |
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Guimerà is a village in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, with a wartime population that likely numbered in the hundreds. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War is less surprising than it sounds — the Republican zone saw a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage from 1936 onward, and hundreds of Catalan towns, parishes, and cooperatives plugged the gap with locally printed notes. The Ajuntament contracted Imprenta A. Figueres in nearby Tàrrega, a press responsible for multiple municipal issues across Urgell.
Turró catalogues this as #1221. The thick card format was typical of the production constraints — not a design choice, but a material one.