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25 Céntimos La Granadella

Issuer Consell Municipal de La Granadella
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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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.

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