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25 Céntimos Mont-roig
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mont-roig (Municipality of Mont-roig del Camp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green note with a double-rule blue border enclosing a dense guilloche underprint across the entire field. The denomination '25 céntims' appears in the upper left and the series letter 'C' in the upper right, with a large serial number centred below the issuer's name. A red circular validation stamp is applied over the face. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress printing on plain paper, framed within a simple ruled border. The face value and issuing authority are stated in Catalan, accompanied by the full authorisation text explaining the note's purpose as small-change currency and its date of issue. |
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Mont-roig del Camp was a tiny Catalan municipality with a wartime population of a few thousand, yet like hundreds of Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War it was forced to issue its own fractional paper currency after metallic coin essentially vanished from circulation by 1936–37. These locally printed emergency notes — known collectively as paper moneda — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree of June 1937, which gave municipalities legal cover to issue denominations below one peseta.
Turró catalogues over 1,600 such issues; this one, numbered 1602, sits near the outer edge of that survey. Short print runs and purely local circulation mean survival rates are low — not because examples were carefully preserved, but because most were simply discarded once the emergency issues were demonetized.