Catalog
25 Céntimos Vilanant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanant (Municipality of Vilanant) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2816 |
| Obverse description | Printed on buff-coloured thick card stock in dark brown and red letterpress. A double-rule rectangular border with ornamental floral corner devices frames the face; the issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Vilanant' is set in bold black type at the top, separated from the large red denomination numeral '25 cts.' by a short horizontal rule. A rectangular serial number panel in red underprint at the foot carries the black typeset number. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vilanant 25 cts. Nº (Translation: City Council of Vilanant / 25 Centimos / No.) |
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Vilanant is a tiny municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, and this 25 céntimos note belongs to the vast category of Spanish Civil War emergency local issues — the *moneda local* or *moneda de necessitat* produced by hundreds of Catalan towns between 1936 and 1939 when the Republican government failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. The hoarding of metal and the disruption of supply chains forced even villages of a few hundred inhabitants to print their own fractional currency.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan emissions. A Turró number this high places it among the more obscure issues in the series.