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25 Céntimos La Garriga
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Garriga (Municipality of La Garriga) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette illustrates an agricultural scene in which a peasant guides two horses pulling a four-wheeled cart laden with wheat sheaves, rendered in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. The issuer's name and payment obligation appear in Catalan in typeset lettering framing the design. |
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| Reverse description | The left half carries a teal-printed vignette of the municipal coat of arms rendered in an ornate, stylised manner within a ruled guilloche border, incorporating foliate and geometric underprint elements. The right half presents the denomination and date in bold dark-red typeset lettering within a plain ruled frame, validated by a circular violet municipality control stamp. |
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La Garriga is a small Catalan spa town northeast of Barcelona. This note is one of thousands of emergency paper issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, when Republican Spain suffered a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from circulation. The central Republican government authorized local councils to fill the gap with their own paper, and hundreds did, producing a bewildering variety of fractional notes that rarely circulated beyond the issuing town.
The Turró catalogue remains the standard reference for these Catalan municipals, documenting over a thousand distinct issues.