Catalog
25 Céntimos Vilademat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilademat |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in lilac-pink on plain paper stock, the note is framed within a double-line rectangular border. The issuer inscription 'AJUNTAMENT DE VILADEMAT' is placed at upper left with series letter and serial number at upper right, while the denomination 'VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS' is rendered in large stylized letterpress type across the centre field. Below the denomination, a payability clause in smaller roman lettering is followed by three manuscript signatures in the lower portion, each preceded by a printed title designation. |
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| Reverse description | Typeset in lilac-pink on plain paper stock within a double-line rectangular border consistent with the obverse layout, the reverse presents the issuing authority name and denomination in numerals. The mandatory local currency declaration occupies a secondary line of text, with the composition relying entirely on letterpress typography without pictorial vignette. |
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Vilademat is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War — a direct consequence of the Republic's chronic small-change shortage from 1936 onward. The Consell Municipal, acting through the Ajuntament, had the legal backing of the Generalitat de Catalunya's decree authorizing local currency issues, but in practice these small-town emissions were produced on whatever printing resources were locally available.
Turró documents this series with a single reference number, suggesting the 25 céntimos was not part of a broad multi-denomination emission. Very few Alt Empordà municipal issues saw wide collector attention before Turró's cataloguing work systematized them.