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| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vandellòs (Municipality of Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Solé, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vandellós VAL per 25 CÈNTIMS al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi (Translation: City Council of Vandellós Valid for 25 Centimos with the sole purpose of facilitating change) |
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| Protection description | Oval violet municipal stamp of the Alcaldia de Vandellós applied by hand to the reverse as authentication |
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Vandellòs was a small agricultural municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local councils to plug the coin shortage caused by hoarding and wartime disruption. Imprenta Solé in Tarragona produced notes for several of these municipal issuers across the province, working under considerable material constraints.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device — a telling sign of how rudimentary the security apparatus was for these local emissions.