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10 Céntimos Vilafant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilafant (Municipality of Vilafant) |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILAFANT Val 10 cèntims De curs local obligatori (Translation: City Council of Vilafant Voucher 10 Centimos Mandatory local currency) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted verso bearing a single oval municipal stamp applied in blue ink, containing the issuer's name and decorative elements typical of Catalan municipal seals of the Civil War period. |
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Vilafant is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued emergency fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War — a direct consequence of the Republican government's failure to maintain an adequate supply of small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Generalitat de Catalunya sanctioned local emergency issues from 1936 onward, which is why notes bearing the names of tiny villages survive at all.
Turró catalogues this as #2781, placing it deep in the long sequence of Catalan municipal issues. The small card format was typical of these wartime fraccionals — printed locally, often on whatever stock was available.