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25 Céntimos Torredembarra
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torredembarra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 96 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Torredembarra Vint-i-cinc cts. Emès per aquest Consell per tal de facilitar el canvi, reemborsable a la seva caixa. Acord pres el 20 de Maig del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Torredembarra Twenty-five Centimos Issued by this Council in order to facilitate change, refundable at its Treasury. Agreement taken on May 20, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Ocher ground composed of a repeating shell-pattern underprint enclosed within a green geometric guilloche frame along the perimeter. The denomination "25 céntims" is printed in large green letterpress numerals and text at centre, with "VAL" below and the restrictive circulation legend running along the lower margin in smaller green type. A handwritten serial number appears in the upper right area above the design field. |
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Torredembarra is a small coastal municipality in the Tarragonès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Ajuntament printed these locally through Imprenta Sonsona — a press operating in the same town — which was entirely typical of the decentralized improvisation that characterizes the whole moneda local phenomenon.
Turró catalogues over 2,500 such municipal issues from this period, and Torredembarra's 25 Céntimos sits deep in that list without any documented printing anomalies or known varieties.