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25 Céntimos Reus
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Reus |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta De Ferrando, Reus, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink with face value and text set within an ornamental border. An oval vignette at left contains a portrait of the Catalan politician Antoni Soler i Clariana. The denomination 25 appears in large numerals, with the issuing authority's declaration of payment printed in Catalan. |
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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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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes — "moneda de paper" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after small metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. The Republican government's inability to supply sufficient small change forced local councils across Catalonia to print their own, giving towns like Reus effective monetary autonomy by necessity rather than by any formal arrangement.
Ferrando printed locally, which kept turnaround fast but quality variable across the series. Turró catalogued over 2,000 distinct municipal issues from this period; Reus produced several denominations.