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25 Céntimos Vilanant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanant (Municipality of Vilanant) |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vilanant 25 cts. Nº (Translation: City Council of Vilanant / 25 Centimos / No.) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted buff card stock reverse bearing a faint circular municipal stamp impression in the lower-left area, with a handwritten notation in the upper-right corner; no typeset text or decorative elements are present. |
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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.