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25 Céntimos Horta de Terra Alta
| Issuer | Horta de Terra Alta, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream card stock, framed by a border of solid and open rhombus ornaments at the corners and along all four edges. A fine guilloche-style wave underprint fills the field. The issuer's name is set in large bold capitals across the upper portion, separated by dashes from the word 'DE', with the denomination value '25' in large numerals at lower centre flanked by 'VAL' and 'CTS.' |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock, otherwise blank, with a single oval violet handstamp applied off-centre. The stamp bears the circular legend of the Municipal Council of Horta de Terra Alta and is ornamented with small star devices between the text segments. |
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Horta de Terra Alta — a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona — issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely across Republican-controlled territory. These local issues, collectively known as "moneda local de guerra," were authorized under a 1936 decree that permitted municipalities and collectives to produce their own scrip to keep local commerce functioning. Hundreds of towns did exactly this, producing notes of wildly varying quality and official sanction.
Turró catalogues this issue but survival rates for small-town Catalan emergency scrip are low — wartime use was hard, and most were unredeemed after Nationalist forces took the region in early 1938.