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25 Céntimos Montcada i Reixac
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montcada i Reixac |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 98 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a pale botanical underprint of fruits and foliage across the central field. A repeating scroll-ornament frame borders the note with the denomination 25 CTS. in each corner; the issuer's name L'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTCADA I REIXAC is set in bold capitals at the top, above the large numeral denomination 25 CÈNTIMS and a bearer guarantee text referencing the Banc Hispano-Colonial. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion beneath the titles L'ALCALDE-PRESIDENT and EL CONSELLER DE FINANCES. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CTS. L'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTCADA I REIXAC EMISSIÓ ACORDADA EN SESSIÓ PLENÀRIA DEL 19 DE NOVEMBRE DEL 1937 (Translation: 25 Centimos The City Council of Montcada i Reixac Issue agreed in plenary session on November 19, 1937) |
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One of hundreds of local emergency issues produced across Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left municipalities scrambling to keep daily commerce functional. Montcada i Reixac, a small industrial town on the Besòs north of Barcelona, issued its own paper fractional currency under the authority of its Republican ajuntament — a pattern repeated in nearly every Catalan town and village between 1936 and 1938.
Turró's catalog documents over 1,500 such emissions. The sheer number of issuing bodies means condition and surviving quantities vary wildly even within a single municipality's series.