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5 Céntimos Cabrils
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cabrils |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A rudimentary wartime emergency voucher produced on plain card stock, with all text applied by typewriter in purple ink. The face bears no vignette, ornament, or town name — the denomination and date constitute the entire design. Handwritten annotations appear in the upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL per 5 ctms Prvnal 8 DIC 1937 (Translation: Voucher for 5 Centimos provisional December 8, 1937) |
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Cabrils is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after silver and copper coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. These municipal notes — known collectively as "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's wartime economic framework, which gave local bodies unusual latitude to print their own low-denomination scrip.
At 46 × 29 mm, this is among the smallest paper issues of the conflict. Card stock construction was a practical choice: tiny paper notes disintegrated quickly in pockets and wallets.