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25 Céntimos Sallent
| Issuer | Sallent, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and brown, the note carries the rhomboidal municipal coat of arms of Sallent to the left, with a vignette of the Municipal Library of the Park — inaugurated by the Mancomunitat in 1918 — occupying the right portion. The denomination '25' appears in the upper corners, with the full text of the obligation clause in Catalan across the centre field. The date 'MAIG DEL 1937' and the mandatory local currency declaration appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black, the reverse presents a panoramic vignette of Sallent along the Llobregat river, with a dam in the foreground and an industrial building visible behind the Gothic stone bridge dating from the 14th century. The denomination in Catalan and numerals appears above and below the central vignette, flanked by the mandatory local currency declaration. |
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Sallent is a small Catalan textile town in the Bages comarca, and like hundreds of other municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced into printing its own fractional currency after the Republican government's wartime hoarding of metal coinage collapsed small-change circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. These local emissions — known collectively as "moneda local" or "paper de guerra" — were technically illegal under central banking law but tolerated out of sheer necessity.
Indústries Gràfiques Viladot was a Barcelona commercial printer responsible for a significant number of these municipal issues across Catalonia, which accounts for the relatively consistent production quality despite the chaotic circumstances of their commissioning.