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25 Céntimos Sentmenat
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Sentmenat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and green note with a rectangular perimeter frame enclosing a central vignette of a worker wielding a pickaxe against a mountainous landscape, rendered in an allegorical style symbolic of labor. The denomination '25' appears in the upper left corner, while the reverse side bears an oval rubber stamp overstrike in pink ink with the serial number and municipal name. The overall design relies on flat letterpress printing with no guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 CÈNTIMS CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE SENTMENAT (Translation: 25 Centimos Municipal Council of Sentmenat) |
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Sentmenat is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its council issued emergency fractional paper currency after the Republic's coinage all but disappeared from circulation in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local issues precisely because the hoarding crisis had made small change functionally unavailable. Turró catalogues well over two thousand such local emissions, and Sentmenat's is unremarkable in its monetary logic — but the sheer number of distinct issuing authorities across Catalonia makes each surviving piece a record of hyperlocal administrative continuity under wartime conditions.
Paper quality on small Catalan municipal issues varies enormously; notes from minor councils were often printed on whatever stock was locally available.