Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
15 Céntimos Vacarisses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vaquerisses (Municipality of Vacarisses) |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Dark green letterpress text on cream card stock, with the municipal name AJUNTAMENT DE VAQUERISSES printed in bold upper-left and the large numeral '15' to the right. The municipal coat of arms — a heraldic shield with vertical bars and a bovine figure — appears in the lower-left quadrant. The denomination indicator 'cts.' is set in italic script below the numeral. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in dark green letterpress, with the large bold numeral '15' occupying the lower portion of the note and 'cts.' in italic script to its right. A red typeset serial number, prefixed by 'No', is positioned along the upper edge. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Vacarisses is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local authorities to fill the void left by hoarded and disappeared coinage. The centim denominations produced by these ajuntaments were purely practical stop-gaps, usually printed on whatever card or thick paper stock the local council could source.
Turró catalogs this piece as #2629, placing it within a well-documented but enormous body of Catalan local issues — over three thousand entries — where individual municipal pieces can be genuinely difficult to distinguish from forgeries or later reprints without careful examination of the paper stock and typography.