25 Céntimos Prats de Lluçanès

Prats de Lluçanès is a small market town in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when Republican-zone silver and bronze coins vanished almost entirely from circulation by mid-1937. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to fill the gap, which produced a chaotic but genuinely functional patchwork of hyperlocal paper — often printed in very small runs by whatever press was available.

The C.A.M. in Barcelona handled production for numerous Catalan councils simultaneously, which means this note shares its typographic DNA with a wide range of similar issues from the period, though the authorization and serial responsibility remained municipal.