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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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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Municipal coat of arms to the left, flanked by a decorative vignette of fruits and foliage to the upper right. The text is arranged around the central design, with the issuing authority's full name across the top and the guarantee clause and date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT DE MONTCADA I REIXAC reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS essent-ne garantia el diposit constituït al Banc Hispano Colonial. Maig - 1937 25 (Translation: The City Council of Montcada i Reixac recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centimos the deposit made in the Banco Hispano Colonial being a guarantee. May - 1937) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across the Republican zone during the Civil War, this piece from Montcada i Reixac reflects the near-total breakdown of small-denomination coinage by 1937. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply pushed even small municipalities to print their own scrip — legally dubious but practically necessary, since without it local commerce simply stopped.
Grafos was a Barcelona printing firm operating under collective management following the anarcho-syndicalist seizures of 1936. The "Col·lectivitzada" designation is not decorative — it identifies the firm as worker-controlled under the CNT-FAO collectivization decrees, which gives this note a secondary layer of historical specificity beyond its issuing municipality.