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25 Céntimos Martorell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Martorell |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a linear vignette of the Pont del Diable (Devil's Bridge), the medieval Gothic arch bridge of Roman origin spanning the Llobregat river at Martorell, rendered in a simple black outline style against a plain ground. The place name 'MARTORELL' and denomination '0'25' are set in bold letterpress type. |
| Reverse lettering | MARTORELL 0`25 (Translation: Martorell 0.25) |
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One of hundreds of local emergency notes — known collectively as paper moneda or moneda de necessitat — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of small-change supply in Republican-held territory. The Generalitat de Catalunya nominally oversaw these emissions, but in practice each town council printed what it needed, when it needed it, with whatever printing resources were locally available. Martorell's issues reflect exactly that improvisation.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipal notes, and #1445 places this squarely within a well-documented but genuinely scarce series — Martorell's total emission volume was small even by the modest standards of the region's smaller ajuntaments.