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25 Céntimos Sadurní d'Anoia
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sadurní d'Anoia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`25 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE SADURNÍ D`ANOIA VINT·I·CINC CENTIMS (ACORD DEL 15 DE JULIOL DEL 1937) Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Sadurní d`Anoia (Translation: Municipal Council of Sadurní d`Anoia Twenty-five Centimos (Agreement of July 15, 1937) Redeemable at the Municipal Treasury Mandatory course for the entire municipality of Sadurní d`Anoia) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a dense symmetrical guilloche and foliate vignette filling the entire field. A central hexagonal cartouche carries the face value "0'25 PESSETES" in bold lettering, flanked on each side by a serial number printed in green. The issuing authority is inscribed in an upper arc and the municipality name in a lower arc, with the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. "SÈRIE A" appears in each lower corner. |
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Sadurní d'Anoia — better known internationally as Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, the capital of Penedès cava production — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency small-change notes during the Republic's currency crisis of 1937. The Republican government's failure to supply adequate coinage forced local councils into ad hoc paper production, and the results varied wildly in quality and ambition.
What distinguishes this emission is that it was printed by Arts Gràfiques Benaiges operating as a collectivized print shop — the "Impremta Col·lectiva" designation reflects the anarcho-syndicalist worker takeovers that swept Catalan industry after July 1936. The printer and the issuer were, in a real sense, neighbors solving the same problem with whatever materials were at hand.