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25 Céntimos Vilada
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilada |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue ground with brown letterpress text within a triple-rule rectangular border frame. The Arms of Catalonia appear as a central vignette, flanked by the denomination numeral and the issuing authority inscription. The overall layout is typographic in character, typical of Civil War-era Catalan municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | VINT-I-CINC CENTIMS DE CURS LEGAL AL TERME (Translation: Twenty-five Centimos of Legal Tender in the Municipality) |
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Vilada is a small municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of normal coin circulation in 1936. The Consell Municipal — the revolutionary local council — had neither the resources nor the infrastructure for sophisticated printing, so production went to the nearest available commercial press: Jaume Molins in Berga, roughly ten kilometers away.
Turró's catalog documents this as #2766, placing it within the vast and still incompletely surveyed universe of Catalan wartime locals. Many of these Berguedà emissions were printed in very small runs and saw genuinely limited circulation before being superseded or simply abandoned as the war's front lines shifted.