Catalog
25 Céntimos Vilademat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilademat |
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| Size | 112 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADEMAT Sèrie A VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS Pagable a la Caixa de l'Ajuntament L'Alcalde El Conseller de Finances El Dipositari (Translation: City Council of Vilademat Series A Twenty-Five Centimes Payable at the City Council Treasury The Mayor The Finance Councillor The Depositary) |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADEMAT 25 cèntims BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: City Council of Vilademat 25 Centimes Mandatory Local Currency Banknote) |
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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.