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25 Céntimos Maçanet de la Selva
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Maçanet de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Teal letterpress note on a dotted underprint ground, enclosed within multiple rectilinear borders. A boxed text block at the top carries the redemption clause, below which the large-face denomination '25 cts.' occupies the central field. Three handwritten manuscript signatures appear across the middle register under the printed role designations 'El Caixer', 'El Secretari Interventor', and 'L'Alcalde', with a circular municipal stamp visible at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Reintegrable en la Caixa Municipal en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament en data 27 d'Octubre de 1937 25 cts. El Caixer, El Secretari Interventor, L'Alcalde (Translation: Refundable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of the City Council on October 27, 1937. 25 Centimos. The Cashier, The Secretary-Controller, The Mayor) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply pushed local councils — ajuntaments — to print their own fractional currency. Maçanet de la Selva is a small town in the Selva comarca of Girona province, and its emission was modest in scope, produced locally with the limited printing resources available.
Turró's catalog documents these wartime municipals exhaustively; #1391 places this note squarely within the 1937 peak of the phenomenon, when nearly every Catalan town of any size had issued something similar.