25 Céntimos Vilanova de Segrià

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.