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50 Céntimos Vilafant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilafant (Municipality of Vilafant) |
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| Size | 63 × 49 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red letterpress on plain paper stock, the face carries the issuer name underlined, the denomination, and a mandatory circulation legend, all framed within a geometric border in blue. A serial number appears within the composition. The overall layout is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink-red card stock with no printed design. An oval municipal handstamp in blue-violet ink is applied at centre, enclosing a crowned heraldic shield surrounded by a wreath, with the municipal legend distributed around the perimeter and a star at each lateral extremity. |
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Vilafant is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, a few kilometers north of Figueres. During the Spanish Civil War, the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in the Republican zone forced hundreds of municipalities — including the most obscure — to print their own emergency paper. Vilafant's issues fall into this category: hyperlocal, produced in tiny quantities, and intended for use only within the township's own commerce.
Turró's catalog remains the essential reference for these Catalan municipal emissions, and the fact that this piece has a dedicated listing speaks to its documentation, not its abundance. Small-run municipal notes from villages of this size were often printed on whatever card stock was locally available, which accounts for the heavier substrate.