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25 Céntimos Vilanova de Meià
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova de Meià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 57 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue letterpress on a yellow underprint of fine dots, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The Catalan coat of arms appears as a central vignette, with the full denomination in Catalan, issue and expiry dates, and a mandatory circulation notice arranged in text blocks around it. A violet handstamp appears on the note. |
| Reverse lettering | VILANOVA DE MEIÀ VINT-I-CINC cèntims EMISSIÓ: 15 març del 1937. VENCIMENT 15 SETEMBRE 1937 (with violet stamp) CURS OBLIGATORI PER A CANVI EN TOT EL DISTRICTE MUNICIPAL (Translation: Vilanova de Meià Twenty-five Centimos Issue: March 15, 1937. Expiration September 15, 1937 (with violet stamp) Mandatory course for change in all the Municipal District) |
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Vilanova de Meià is a small municipality in the Lleida highlands, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese villages during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency paper when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat's own sèrie B notes couldn't fill the gap at the local level, which is why municipal issues like this one proliferated wildly through 1937 and into 1938.
Turró catalogues over 3,000 distinct Spanish Civil War local issues, and the Vilanova de Meià pieces are among the more obscure — a municipality small enough that surviving print runs were tiny and contemporary hoarding was minimal.