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5 Céntimos El Vilosell
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Vilosell (Municipality of El Vilosell) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design printed in black ink on cream card stock, with the issuer name and denomination rendered in letterpress within a single-rule rectangular border. The issuer name appears underlined as a typographic emphasis, with the voucher value stated below in abbreviated form. The overall layout is austere and utilitarian, consistent with locally produced Civil War-era emergency fractional currency. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain cream card stock with no text, ornamentation, or markings of any kind. |
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El Vilosell is a village in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Notes of this type belong to the Spanish Civil War-era emergency small change issues — *moneda municipal* or *moneda de cartón* — produced by thousands of municipalities across Catalonia and the Republican zone from 1936 onward when metallic coin essentially vanished from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted.
Turró catalogues this as #2904, placing it among the rarer rural emissions where surviving examples are genuinely uncommon — smaller pueblos produced correspondingly smaller print runs, and much of this material was discarded or destroyed after the war.