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25 Céntimos L'Arboç
| Issuer | Ajuntament de L'Arboç (Municipality of L'Arboç) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 85 × 49 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted note with a guilloche underprint of interlocking circular motifs covering the entire field, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The issuing authority inscription is positioned at the top, with the denomination in large letterpress text at centre; a serial number and asterisk control mark appear at lower left. Two manuscript signature lines with printed titles for the Alcalde President and the Conseller de Finances are placed beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Red-printed reverse centred on the large numeral '25' set against a geometric dot-matrix underprint with a map-shaped vignette outline in the background. The denomination legend appears in bold letterpress below the numeral, and a circular municipal stamp in violet is applied at centre, partially overlapping the design. The printer's imprint is present at the lower margin. |
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L'Arboç is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorised local bodies to plug the chronic shortage of small change — a shortage caused partly by hoarding and partly by the physical disruption of normal banking. The Barnadas press in nearby El Vendrell printed emergency notes for several surrounding municipalities, which explains the shared production quality across the region's wartime emissió local series.
Turró catalogues this as #170, placing it firmly within the documented Alt Penedès group.