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25 Céntimos La Granja d'Escarp
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de la Granja de Escarpe |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency voucher on cream-coloured card stock, with the issuer name and denomination rendered in black ink within a simple rectangular border frame. The issuer name appears underlined beneath the council title, with the face value expressed in figures and abbreviated text centred on the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse, otherwise blank save for an applied oval municipal stamp in violet ink reading 'Consell Municipal' around its perimeter, with additional handwritten annotations visible in the upper right corner. |
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La Granja d'Escarp is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued emergency fractional currency in 1936–37 to address the catastrophic shortage of small change that followed the collapse of normal banking. These town-issued notes — known collectively as "Guerra Civil locals" — were often produced on whatever card or heavy paper was available locally, frequently cut by hand or with rudimentary equipment.
Turró's catalog documents thousands of such issues; #1173 places this among the lesser-documented Lleida municipals, meaning surviving examples are genuinely uncommon.