Catalog
25 Céntimos Navata
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navata |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1653 |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff card stock, the reverse bears a single applied oval municipal dry-stamp in violet ink, comprising two concentric ovals enclosing the Spanish royal coat of arms at centre, with the legend 'AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL' along the upper arc and 'NAVATA' along the lower arc. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Navata is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's central authorities failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. These hyper-local notes — often printed on whatever card stock was available and validated with a municipal rubber stamp — were legal tender only within the issuing township, sometimes literally within a single street market.
Turró catalogs this piece as #1653. The thick card substrate was a deliberate choice: thinner paper disintegrated quickly in daily handling.