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25 Céntimos Reus
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Reus |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in black on plain paper, enclosed within an ornamental border. To the left, an oval vignette carries a portrait of journalist and politician Josep Güell i Mercader. The face value and issuing authority are set in letterpress typography at centre and right, with the date 14 d'Abril del 1937 inscribed in the lower text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE REUS 25 CÈNTIMS BITLLET DE CIRCULACIÓ OBLIGATORIA EN TOTA LA JURISDICCIÓ MUNICIPAL (Translation: Municipal Council of Reus 25 Centimos Mandatory circulation banknote in all the Municipal Jurisdiction) |
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Reus was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central government failed to maintain an adequate supply of small change — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. The Consell Municipal, then under anarchist and leftist influence, commissioned Imprenta De Ferrando, a local press, to produce these notes rather than waiting for Barcelona or Madrid to act.
Local printing on general commercial equipment means registration and ink consistency vary considerably across surviving examples. Turró catalogues this as #2082 within his exhaustive survey of Catalan war-issue municipals.