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25 Céntimos Igualada
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Igualada (Municipality of Igualada) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1257 |
| Obverse description | Plain white card stock with the municipal coat of arms of Igualada printed in lilac, accompanied by the issuer name and face value in black letterpress. The denomination is stated clearly in Catalan, with the issuing authority legend arching above the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D`IGUALADA Val per 25 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Igualada Valid for 25 Centimos) |
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Igualada is a textile town in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never produced in sufficient quantity. These municipal emissions, known as moneda local or vales, were authorized under a 1937 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, which gave ayuntamientos limited authority to print their own fractional paper rather than let commerce grind to a halt.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan Civil War issues, and #1257 places this piece within a well-documented but often physically fragile series — the card stock used by smaller municipalities was frequently of inconsistent quality, and examples with clean edges are harder to find than the surviving quantities might suggest.