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25 Céntimos La Bisbal del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Bisbal del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a yellow paper with a fine guilloche underprint, carrying the municipal authority's name in bold across the top, followed by the bearer clause and denomination in large type. A four-pointed floral ornament appears to the right of the serial number, with the date 'MAIG DEL 1937' to its right. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Alcalde President on the left and the Conseller de Finances on the right, each above a printed title line. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red on plain paper, with the large numeral '25' centred at the top of a dotted rectangular field, and the word 'CENTIMS' in bold capitals below. A border of closely spaced dots frames the composition on all sides, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' appears in small type along the lower margin. |
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La Bisbal del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of June 1937 authorized local emergency emission. This 25 céntimos note was printed by Arts Gràfiques Barnadas in the nearby town of El Vendrell — a local press pressed into service for what was essentially a stop-gap against the chronic shortage of small-denomination coin that plagued Republican-held territory throughout the conflict.
Signed by the alcalde Llorenç Urpí and finance councillor Josep Capelet, the note falls under the Turró catalogue at #454, placing it among the documented but modestly scarce local issues from the Penedès region.