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25 Céntimos Navata
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navata |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and blue on buff card stock, the obverse carries the issuer name 'Ajuntament Navata' in bold red letterpress at the top, separated from the large blue denomination numeral '25 cts.' by a short red rule. A sequential serial number in red, prefixed 'No', appears within a blue horizontally-lined panel at the foot. The entire field is enclosed by a blue dashed-and-chain geometric border with corner ornaments. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL NAVATA |
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Navata is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's central authorities failed to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. These hyper-local notes — often printed on whatever card stock was available and validated with a municipal rubber stamp — were legal tender only within the issuing township, sometimes literally within a single street market.
Turró catalogs this piece as #1653. The thick card substrate was a deliberate choice: thinner paper disintegrated quickly in daily handling.