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25 Céntimos Pauls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pauls (Municipality of Pauls) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1795 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on a light pink underprint of floral arabesque designs, enclosed within a repeating-star border. Inscriptions in brown ink are arranged in a plain typographic layout across the face, stating the issuing municipality, denomination in centims, and authorization, consistent with the utilitarian character of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Pauls VAL per 25 CENTIMS AUTORITZAT (Translation: City Council of Pauls Valid for 25 Centimos Authorized) |
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Pauls is a tiny village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, it printed its own emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain's small change dried up almost entirely by mid-1937. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local issues precisely because the coin shortage had become acute enough to paralyze everyday commerce — markets, bakeries, cooperatives could not make change.
Turró catalogues well over two thousand such municipal issues; most were printed on whatever stock was available locally, often by a village printer or rubber stamp, and few circulated beyond the issuing municipality's immediate trading circle. Pauls had a wartime population of only a few hundred.