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25 Céntimos Borrassà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Borrassà |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal BORRASSÀ 25 cts. Nº 00011 (Translation: Municipal Council Borrassà 25 Centimos) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT REPUBLICÁ BORRASSÀ (Translation: Republican City Council Borrassà) |
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Borrassà is a tiny municipality in Alt Empordà, Girona, and this 25 céntimos note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed much of Republican-held Catalonia from 1936 onward. With silver coinage hoarded and the central government slow to respond, hundreds of local councils — including ones with populations in the hundreds — began issuing their own emergency fractional currency under a framework loosely authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Turró 499 places this firmly within that municipal emergency emission series. The official stamp served as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, which says something about the improvised nature of the whole enterprise — and about how little counterfeiting risk anyone seriously expected at this scale.