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25 Céntimos Vilanova de Segrià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilanova de Segrià |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2859 |
| Obverse description | Plain light blue card stock printed in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal / Vilanova de Segrià' appears at the top, underlined by a horizontal rule, with a handwritten authorisation signature in blue ink across the centre. The denomination legend 'VAL per 0'25 Cts.' is printed in bold black type across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal Vilanova de Segrià VAL per 0'25 Cts. (Translation: Municipal Council Vilanova de Segrià Voucher for 0.25 Centimos) |
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Vilanova de Segrià is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and this 25 céntimos piece belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency fractional currency that flooded Republican-held Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. With the peseta system under severe strain and small coins hoarded out of circulation by 1937, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including ones with fewer than a thousand residents — printed their own low-denomination notes to keep local commerce moving.
The thick card stock construction was typical of municipal issues from under-resourced town councils working with whatever printing materials were at hand. Turró catalogues over 3,000 such issues; number 2859 places this one deep in that count, from a village most collectors would never otherwise encounter.