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25 Céntimos Organyà
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Organyà (Municipality of Organyà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTIMS AJUNTAMENT D`ORGANYÀ VINT I CINC CENTIMS Emissió feta segons acord del Consell Municipal en sessió del 29 de juliol del 1937. (Translation: 25 Centimos City Council of Organyà Twenty-five Centimos Issue made by agreement of the Municipal Council in session of July 29, 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Bitllet de curs obligatori a la Vila d`Organyà (Translation: Mandatory course banknote in the Village of Organyà) |
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Organyà is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly tiny towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Generalitat eventually moved to suppress these local emissions in favor of centralized scrip, but many municipalities — Organyà among them — had already printed and distributed their notes before any coordination was possible.
Turró catalogues over two thousand such Catalan municipal issues from 1936–37. That density makes condition and provenance the only real differentiators among minor municipalities like this one.