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25 Céntimos Vilaboi
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilaboi (Municipality of Vilaboi) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Ocher-toned note with brown letterpress text throughout. The Catalan coat of arms appears as a vignette on the left, framed by stylised floral ornaments. The central field carries the issuing authority, denomination, and a guarantee clause referencing the deposit held at the Bank of Biscay, dated 19 May 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Ocher-toned note with brown letterpress text. On the right, a female allegorical figure holds agricultural implements, while on the left a male portrait wears the winged helmet of Mercury and is accompanied by a cogwheel and mallet, together symbolising commerce and industry. The denomination and mandatory circulation clause are set in the central text field. |
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Vilaboi is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local emergency emissions to address the chronic shortage of small coins — hoarded almost immediately once fighting began. The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a large volume of these municipal issues simultaneously, which accounts for the family resemblance many of them share in typography and layout.
Turró catalogues this emission under #2762, placing it among the better-documented Alt Penedès issues, though surviving examples in any condition are thin on the ground given the note's purely local circulation and the chaos of the 1939 Nationalist advance through Catalonia.