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25 Céntimos Vandellòs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vandellòs (Municipality of Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in violet on plain paper, the note is framed by a geometric dotted-scallop border enclosing the issuing authority's name at top, the denomination numeral at centre, and the municipal emblem vignette at left. The text block sets out the full redemption obligation of the Municipal Depository, with validity restricted to the year 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet by letterpress, the reverse is enclosed within a continuous scalloped dotted border matching the obverse frame. The series designation appears at the upper centre flanked by small floral ornaments, with the serial number printed in the centre field. |
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Vandellòs was a small agricultural municipality in southern Catalonia with no banking infrastructure to speak of, which made the collapse of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37 an immediate practical crisis. The Republican government's failure to supply sufficient fractional currency forced hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments to print their own — these locally issued paper céntimos are collectively catalogued as "moneda de necessitat," emergency money in the most literal sense.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled production for several municipalities in the province during this period, which sometimes makes distinguishing printings difficult without the issuer text. Turró's cataloguing remains the primary reference for untangling the regional output.