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25 Céntimos La Granadella
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de La Granadella |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress printing in dark ink on pale buff card stock. A double-rule rectangular border frames the face, divided horizontally into two registers: the upper band carries the issuer's name in two lines of spaced capital letters, while the lower band bears the denomination 'VAL 25 cèntims' in large bold type alongside a handwritten serial number. The design is entirely typographic, devoid of vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff card stock bearing a single hand-applied circular municipal validation stamp in violet ink, positioned centrally. The stamp consists of two concentric rings with a serrated outer edge, the legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE GRANADELLA' running around the circumference, and a small floral or foliate device at the centre. Pencilled notations appear in the lower left corner. |
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La Granadella is a small municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Spanish Civil War, it was forced to produce its own fractional currency after the Republic's small coins vanished from circulation almost immediately after July 1936. These municipal emergency issues — *moneda local* or *val* — were a bottom-up response to a genuine transactional crisis, not a sanctioned monetary program.
Turró catalogs over 1,600 distinct municipal issues from this period. La Granadella's contributes one of the more compact card-stock pieces in the series, with the official stamp serving as the sole anti-counterfeiting measure — entirely typical of villages operating without printing infrastructure.