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25 Céntimos L'Albiol
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de L'Albiol |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#69 |
| Obverse description | Yellow-toned note with brown letterpress text and a ruled linear border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of L'Albiol occupies the upper left corner, with the issuing authority's name, payment promise, denomination, and date of issue arranged in text blocks across the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Emissió destinada a facilitar el canvi interior en les operacions locals, en defecte de moneda fracmentària 25 CENTIMS 25 (Translation: Issue intended to facilitate internal exchange in local operations, in the absence of fractional currency 25 Centimos 25) |
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L'Albiol is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican-controlled towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency in 1937 when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantities to meet wartime demand. These municipal notes, broadly catalogued under the Catalan *moneda de necessitat* category, were produced locally under widely varying quality controls, which is why paper stock, typography, and stamping consistency differ so dramatically from one small issuer to the next.
Turró 69 is among the harder L'Albiol pieces to find in any honest condition, owing to its extremely limited original issue volume.