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25 Céntimos Sasserra de Bages
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sasserra (Bages) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with a continuous ornamental green border of repeating geometric units enclosing all text. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE SASSERRA (BAGES) is printed in bold blue lettering at the top, with the face value Val per 25 CÈNTIMS in green below it. A guarantee clause in smaller blue type occupies the lower portion of the note, above the serial number printed in blue. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SASSERRA (BAGES) Val per 25 CÈNTIMS QUE GARANTITZA LA CAIXA COMUNAL D'AQUEST POBLE. (Translation: City Council of Sasserra (Bages) Valid for 25 Centimos Guaranteed by the Caixa Comunal of this town) |
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Sasserra is a municipality of barely a few hundred inhabitants in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, which makes this note one of the more extreme examples of the hyperlocal paper money proliferation that occurred across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination coinage from 1936 onward forced thousands of municipalities — many of them tiny — to issue their own emergency notes, a phenomenon so widespread that Turró's catalog runs to well over ten thousand entries for Catalonia alone.
Notes from villages this small typically saw only the most confined local circulation, often for a matter of months before redemption or abandonment. Surviving examples tend to show either heavy use or none at all.