Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Céntimos Prades
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Prades |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PRADES El portador acredita d'aquest Consell 25 CÈNTIMS Prades, 1er de desembre del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Prades The bearer credits this Council with 25 Centimos Prades, December 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red on white paper within an ornamental typographic border matching the obverse. A central vignette reproduces the historic fountain of the Plaza Mayor of Prades, known as 'The World Full of Water', a monument replicated in the Poble Espanyol of Barcelona for the 1929 Universal Exhibition. The denomination is stated below the vignette in Catalan. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Prades is a small Catalan hill town — population under a thousand even today — and its municipal council issued this 25 céntimos note in 1937 as the Republican zone's small-change crisis bit hard. The war had pulled coins out of circulation almost entirely, partly through hoarding, partly because the metal itself had strategic value. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by printing their own fractional paper, and Imprenta Sugrañes in Tarragona supplied several of them.
The Turró catalogue documents over two thousand distinct Spanish Civil War municipal issues. Prades sits near the high end of scarcity for a note this small.