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25 Céntimos Rodonyà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rodonyà |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament de Rodonyà PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR VINT-I-CINC CÉNTIMS MAIG DEL 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Rodonyà Will pay the bearer Twenty-five Centimos May 1937) |
| Reverse description | Entirely letterpress-printed in blue on cream paper, the reverse presents a central dotted underprint panel with scalloped outer edges forming a cartouche-like border. The large numeral '25' is set in bold type at centre, with the denomination legend 'CENTIMS' printed below in spaced capitals; a stepped rectangular dot-matrix border runs along the right margin. |
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Rodonyà is a village in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred in the 1930s. During the Civil War, the Republican government's decree authorizing municipal emergency currency gave even the smallest Catalan towns the right to issue their own fractional notes — partly to address the catastrophic shortage of small change caused by hoarding, and partly because the central banking system had effectively collapsed at the local level by mid-1937.
Arts Gràfiques Barnadas in El Vendrell handled production for numerous nearby municipalities, which is why notes from this pocket of Tarragona province share recognizable typographic DNA despite carrying different issuing names.