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25 Céntimos Passanant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Passanant (Municipality of Passanant) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in dark green ink on a light green dotted-square underprint, the note is framed by a dotted rectangular border. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Passanant' appears in bold letterpress type across the upper portion, with the denomination '0'25' set in large numerals to the upper right. A promise-to-pay legend occupies the central band, above the large-face denomination '25 CENTIMS' in bold type, with the date 'NOVEMBRE DEL 1937' at the foot; the printer's imprint 'IMP.LLIB. A. FIGUERES - TÀRREGA' is typeset in small capitals along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Passanant 0'25 La Dipositaria d'aquest Ajuntament pagarà al portador 25 CENTIMS NOVEMBRE DEL 1937. (Translation: City Council of Passanant 0.25 The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer 25 Centimos November 1937.) |
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Passanant is a village in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona — small enough that its wartime paper money amounts to genuine local emergency scrip. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered chronic small-change shortages after silver coins were hoarded and melted, forcing even the most minor municipalities to print their own fractional notes. Passanant's issue, at the 25 céntimos denomination, was purely practical: buying bread, settling small debts, keeping local commerce moving when nothing else would.
A. Figueres in Tàrrega printed emergency scrip for dozens of these Catalan municipalities during 1937, producing short runs that rarely survived the war in any quantity.