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25 Céntimos La Ràpita dels Alfacs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de La Ràpita dels Alfacs |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CTS. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA RÀPITA DELS ALFACS Val de vint-i-cinc cèntims emès per aquest Consell i reemborsable a la seva Caixa. La Ràpita dels Alfacs, maig del 1937 (Translation: 25 Centimos Municipal Council of La Ràpita dels Alfacs Voucher of Twenty-five Centimos issued for this Council and refundable in its Caixa La Ràpita dels Alfacs, May 1937) |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown, the reverse is framed by a simple rectilinear and circular line border enclosing the municipal coat of arms — a tower — as the central vignette. The face value is expressed in both numeral and text form in letterpress above and below the arms, the restrained overall composition consistent with the emergency nature of the issue. |
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La Ràpita dels Alfacs — now simply known as Sant Carles de la Ràpita — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during 1936–37, when the Republic's small-change shortage reached crisis point and metallic coin had effectively vanished from everyday commerce. These locally authorized notes were printed under the Generalitat's framework but administered entirely at the municipal level, which accounts for the enormous variation in quality and print runs across the series.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona cooperative press with Republican sympathies, responsible for a number of municipal issues from this period. Turró 2061 is among the rarer small-denomination survivals from the Ebro delta municipalities.