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5 Céntimos Castellbell i el Vilar
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Castellbell y el Vilar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#702 |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark blue ink on thick card stock, enclosed within a single ruled rectangular border. The full municipal name is set in two lines across the upper field, beneath which the large numeral '5' appears at left with the word 'céntimos' in smaller type to its right, divided by a horizontal rule. A serial number prefixed by 'Nº' and followed by an asterisk control mark is positioned in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of plain card stock, presenting the natural tan-beige tone of the thick substrate with no typeset or engraved elements. A handwritten notation in the upper right corner serves as a post-issue control or inventory mark. |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local governments scrambling to keep retail transactions functioning. Castellbell i el Vilar, a small textile-mill municipality on the Llobregat river, issued its own emergency scrip like dozens of comparable towns — the Generalitat had authorized local authorities to do so, but standardization was never really enforced.
At 50 × 43 mm, this is genuinely tiny even by the standards of wartime Catalan municipal notes, which were themselves already modest. Thick card stock was a common workaround when proper banknote paper was unavailable.