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25 Céntimos Vilanova i la Geltrú
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilanova i la Geltrú |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta CNT-FAI - JJLL, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Reddish-brown letterpress printing enclosed by an ornamental border of interlaced floral and geometric guilloche designs. The denomination '25 CÈNTIMS' appears in large figures at the upper-left and lower-right corners, flanking a central text panel bearing the validity clause, with a faint circular guilloche rosette as background underprint in the upper-right quadrant. The printer's imprint is present at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 25 CÈNTIMS Aquest bitllet és vàlid per tot el terme municipal de Vilanova i la Geltrú, fins que per acord del Consell es retiri de la circulació (Translation: 25 Centimos This banknote is valid for the entire municipality of Vilanova i la Geltrú, until it is withdrawn from circulation by agreement of the Council) |
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Vilanova i la Geltrú came under effective anarchist administration early in the Civil War, and this note was produced by the CNT-FAI printing collective operating within the town — one of dozens of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency after the July 1936 collectivizations disrupted normal financial channels. The JJLL suffix identifies involvement of the Juventudes Libertarias, the anarchist youth federation, which participated in several collective printing operations across Republican-held Catalonia.
Turró catalogues this as #2866, placing it well into the long tail of localized wartime emissions. Small-denomination municipal notes from this period were printed in short runs, circulated hard, and rarely survived intact.