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25 Céntimos Vilafranca del Penedès
| Issuer | Vilafranca del Penedès, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VILAFRANCA DEL PENEDÈS RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS Vilafranca del Penedès 1 d`Abril del 1937 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Vilafranca del Penedès recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of twenty-five centimos. Vilafranca del Penedès, April 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Pale greenish-blue underprint of geometric and floral guilloche patterns mirrors the obverse design, with black letterpress text identifying the issuing authority and denomination. The composition is spare and typographic, without pictorial vignettes, consistent with the utilitarian character of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency currency. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency paper issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when Republican-zone coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never restruck in sufficient quantity. Vilafranca del Penedès, the capital of the Alt Penedès comarca and a town whose economy ran largely on wine production and trade, issued these notes through its local government to keep small transactions functional.
The extreme 85 × 25 mm format — narrow to the point of being strip-like — is characteristic of several Catalan municipal issues that economized on paper stock during wartime shortages.