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25 Céntimos Puigreig
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Puig-reig (Municipality of Puig-reig) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Reverse description | A photographic or engraved vignette presents a partial townscape of Puig-reig, in which the Manufacturas Pons textile factory and its tall chimney stack are the dominant industrial elements. The face value and the mandatory local-currency clause are printed in Catalan above and below the vignette, giving the reverse a simple typographic frame around the central view. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 CENTIMS BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: 25 Centimos Mandatory local-currency banknote) |
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Puig-reig is a small textile-mill town in the Berguedà comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republic's coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Consell Municipal managed this locally under the broader framework of wartime municipal finance that the Generalitat quietly tolerated rather than formally coordinated.
El Secretariat Català printed a large proportion of these Catalan municipal emergency notes out of Barcelona, giving the series a certain typographic consistency across otherwise unrelated towns. Turró catalogues over two thousand such issues; this sits deep in that count.