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25 Céntimos Vilanova de Prades
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova de Prades |
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| Printer | Imprenta Mestres, Montblanc, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark navy blue and olive-yellow on cream paper, with a multi-rule and dotted geometric border enclosing the entire face. A central olive-yellow oval underprint carries the large denomination numeral '25' in the same colour, over which the issuer legend and value text are printed in bold dark blue letterpress, with the denomination words set in a striated block typeface. The printer's imprint 'IMP. MESTRES-MONTBLANC' appears in olive-yellow letterpress at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Vilanova de Prades is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, and this 25 céntimos note is one of the thousands of locally issued emergency fractional pieces that flooded Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War after the 1936 Republican decree authorizing municipalities to print their own small-denomination currency to address the catastrophic coin shortage. Imprenta Mestres in nearby Montblanc served several of these small Conca de Barberà councils, which is why the print quality across issues from this cluster tends to be consistent even when the issuing populations numbered only in the hundreds.
The official stamp is the sole security feature — typical of the humbler rural issues in the Turró catalog.