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25 Céntimos Mas de Barberans
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mas de Barberans |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency voucher printed in violet ink on cream card stock, enclosed within a double border of dotted rules. The issuing authority appears in bold letterpress at the top, with the denomination value in large numerals at centre-right; a faint circular municipal stamp is visible in the background. A handwritten serial number occupies the lower-left field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 27 AGO 1937 CONSELL MUNICIPAL - MAS DE BARBERANS (MONTSIA) (Translation: August 27, 1937 Municipal Council - Mas de Barberans (Montsia)) |
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Mas de Barberans is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, its local council issued fractional currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of small-denomination coins from circulation. The Republican government's Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal bodies to fill this gap, which produced an extraordinary proliferation of locally printed emergency notes — Turró catalogs over 1,500 distinct issues from this period alone.
At 63 × 37 mm on card stock, this is about as small as Spanish Civil War municipal paper gets.