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25 Céntimos Vilanova de Bellpuig
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova de Bellpuig |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2837 |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vilanova de Bellpuig VAL PER 25 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Vilanova de Bellpuig Valid for 25 Centimes) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted cream-coloured card stock bearing a single handstamped serial number in black ink at centre; no further design elements are present. |
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Vilanova de Bellpuig is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and this 25 céntimos piece belongs to the remarkable wave of emergency fractional currency — *moneda local* or *moneda de necessitat* — issued by hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War. The collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation after 1936 forced municipalities, cooperatives, and even individual businesses to print their own substitutes. Most were produced with minimal infrastructure, which explains the card stock.
Turró's catalog documents over 3,000 such emissions. The sheer number makes individual attribution to specific print runs or dates genuinely difficult for many smaller issuers, Vilanova de Bellpuig among them.