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25 Céntimos Vilallonga del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilallonga del Camp |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on a yellow geometric underprint, the face is framed by a border of wavy lines. The central text block carries the issuing authority and the promise-to-pay inscription, with the denomination stated as 25 cèntims. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE VILALLONGA DEL CAMP Aquesta Dipositaria Municipal abonarà al portador 25 cèntims (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilallonga del Camp This Municipal Depository will pay the bearer 25 Centimos) |
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Vilallonga del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and this 25 céntimos note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination coinage in 1936–37 forced even villages of a few hundred inhabitants to print their own scrip — these were not monetary policy decisions so much as practical responses to a coin shortage that had become genuinely disruptive to daily commerce.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant number of these municipal issues from the surrounding comarca, which accounts for the family resemblance many Turró-catalogued Camp de Tarragona pieces share in typeface and layout.