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25 Céntimos Vilanova de Segrià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilanova de Segrià |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| 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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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on aged card stock, showing fold lines, foxing stains, and what appear to be later collector or cataloguing notations in pencil and blue ink, but carrying no original printed design or text. |
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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.