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25 Céntimos Viladrau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viladrau (Municipality of Viladrau) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADRAU Quantitat reconeguda segons acord municipal VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS Agost 1937 (Translation: City Council of Viladrau Amount recognized according to municipal agreement Twenty-five Centimos August 1937) |
| Reverse description | Light blue ground with dark blue letterpress text arranged around a central vignette of the Font de l'Oreneta, a local spring on the outskirts of Viladrau. The place name and date are set above the vignette, with the mandatory local circulation legend inscribed below. The composition is framed within a plain rule border consistent with the obverse. |
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Viladrau is a small mountain municipality in the Montseny massif, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it was forced to issue its own fractional currency after the Republican government's hoarding decrees of 1936 stripped everyday silver and copper from circulation entirely. The Consell Municipal — by then operating under anarchist and leftist coalition control across much of Catalonia — authorized these emergency notes to keep local commerce moving.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal emergency issues out of Barcelona, which accounts for the consistency in production quality across many small-town Catalan notes of this period despite their wildly varying designs.