25 Céntimos Sant Pol de Mar

Sant Pol de Mar is a small coastal municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of Republican metallic coinage from circulation. The Generalitat had authorized local bodies to fill the gap, which produced an enormous volume of small-denomination paper across Catalonia — Turró catalogues well over two thousand distinct municipal issues from this period alone.

The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this format: at 45 × 35 mm, thin paper would not survive repeated handling.