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10 Céntimos El Vilosell
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vilosell (Municipality of El Vilosell) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design printed in black ink, with a single-line rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuer name appears underlined at the top, with the denomination stated below in letterpress text. The overall composition is austere, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Obverse lettering | AYUNTAMIENTO DE VILOSELL VALE por 10 cts. (Translation: City Council of Vilosell Voucher of 10 Centimos) |
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El Vilosell is a tiny municipality in Les Garrigues, Tarragona province, with a population that barely reached a few hundred even in the early twentieth century. This note belongs to the wave of Spanish Civil War emergency coinage — paper and cardboard fractional currency issued by hundreds of Catalan municipalities from 1936 onward after metallic small change effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate fractional currency pushed the burden down to local councils, some issuing pieces for communities of fewer than 300 people.
Turró catalogues over 3,000 such issues. The sheer volume is why individual municipal pieces like this one rarely attract serious study despite being genuinely local artifacts of wartime economic collapse.