Catalog
5 Céntimos Navata
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navata (Municipality of Navata) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament Navata 5 cts. Nº 01120 |
| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse design in mirror impression bleeding through the thin card stock, overlaid by a large oval municipal dry stamp in blue-violet ink bearing the legend "AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL" around the circumference and "NAVATA" at the base, with a central coat of arms vignette. |
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Navata is a small municipality in Alt Empordà, Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when Republican authorities requisitioned metallic coinage for the war effort. These locally produced notes — known collectively as "moneda de necessitat" — were often printed on whatever card stock the town hall had to hand, which is exactly what the paper quality here suggests.
Turró catalogues this as a single type for Navata, implying the municipality issued no series and left no surviving documentation of print run or issuing date beyond the stamp itself.