25 Céntimos Vilanant

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.