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25 Céntimos La Sénia
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Sénia (Municipality of La Sénia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 87 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown on cream paper, framed by a rectangular border of small repeated square ornaments. The issuer's title appears in Gothic script at top centre, followed by the certificate text in Catalan in justified body text across the centre field. A faint circular official stamp is visible at left. The serial number, prefixed by the Cyrillic-style No symbol and followed by a small asterisk ornament, is set at lower left in bold numerals, with the face value '25 CÉNTIMS' in two lines at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de La Senia Certificat de VINT-I-CINC CÉNTIMS de curs legal en aquesta localitat per a facilitar el canvi segons acord de la corporació del 15 de Juliol del 1937 25 CÉNTIMS (Translation: City Council of La Senia Certificate of Twenty-five Centimos of legal tender in this locality to facilitate the change according to the agreement of the Corporation of July 15, 1937 25 Centimos) |
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La Sénia is a small municipality in the southernmost corner of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during 1936–38, its ayuntamiento issued emergency fractional currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. The Republican government's inability to supply small change at the local level forced this patchwork of municipal paper into existence across thousands of communities simultaneously.
Imprenta Solé handled a substantial share of these Tarragona-region municipals, which gives the series a recognizable typographic consistency even across different issuing bodies. Turró catalogs this as #2332, placing it within a well-documented but genuinely extensive corpus of Civil War local issues.