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25 Céntimos Vilaplana
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilaplana |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2871 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on light green card stock, with the issuer name 'Consell Municipal' in Gothic blackletter and 'Vilaplana' in a smaller Roman typeface, separated from the lower portion by a horizontal rule. Below, the series letter and serial number are printed in a dotted field, with the denomination '25 céntims' in large bold numerals at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light green card stock, otherwise blank save for a rectangular hand-applied rubber stamp with rounded corners bearing the full municipal authority inscription in capital letters arranged over four lines. |
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Vilaplana is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local bodies to produce small-denomination scrip to address the acute shortage of coin. The Turró catalog documents thousands of these emissions, most produced with minimal resources — rubber stamps, local printing shops, whatever card stock was at hand.
The thick card construction is typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and improvised accordingly. Survivorship is uneven: some issues were produced in tiny quantities, others destroyed en masse at the war's end.