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25 Céntimos Llevantí de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llevantí de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 61 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic vignette of the coastal town of Llevantí de Mar (present-day Sant Antoni de Calonge), rendered in a landscape composition across the centre of the note. The denomination and place-name appear in bold capitals above the view, with the month and year of issue below, all printed in a single colour on plain paper stock. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 cts. LLEVANTÍ DE MAR NOVEMBRE 1937 (Translation: 25 Centimos / Llevantí de Mar / November 1937) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the first years of the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply forced local councils to print their own fractional currency. The Ajuntament de Llevantí de Mar — a small coastal town in the Baix Empordà — turned to Imprenta C. Barnés in nearby Palamós, a local commercial press wholly unsuited to security printing but the practical choice given wartime conditions.
Barnés produced notes for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across issues from the Costa Brava interior. The Turró reference series documents over 1,400 distinct Catalan local issues from 1936–1937 alone.