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25 Céntimos L'Arboç
| Issuer | Ajuntament de L'Arboç (Municipality of L'Arboç) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange note with an overall guilloche underprint of interlocking circular rosette patterns covering the entire field, bordered by a dotted perimeter frame. Issuer name and promise-to-pay text appear in the upper portion, with the denomination in large bold lettering at centre, followed by the date 'Maig del 1937'. A serial number appears at lower left, flanked by an asterisk, with two manuscript signatures below their respective role titles. |
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| Reverse description | Pale note printed in dark blue, with a geometric dotted pattern forming a scalloped decorative frame across the field. The large numeral '25' appears at centre within a circular violet handstamp of the Municipal Council, above the inscription 'CENTIMS' in bold letterpress. A horizontal ruled band runs beneath the denomination. |
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L'Arboç is a small municipality in the Baix Penedès comarca of Tarragona, and this note belongs to the vast ecosystem of wartime emergency fractional currency — moneda local — issued by Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican zone's coin supply effectively collapsed in 1936. Hundreds of municipalities printed their own low-denomination paper, and the Barnadas press in nearby El Vendrell handled a significant share of the regional output.
Turró catalogues over 1,500 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. The 25 céntimos denomination was among the most commonly needed for daily transactions, which means circulation wear is typical and clean examples are harder to source than the higher values.