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5 Céntimos La Bisbal del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Bisbal del Penedès (Municipality of La Bisbal del Penedès) |
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| Printer | Imprenta Arts Gràfiques Barnadas, El Vendrell, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de La Bisbal del Penedès Val per 5 cèntims (Translation: City Council of La Bisbal del Penedès Voucher for 5 Centimos) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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La Bisbal del Penedès is a small municipality in the Baix Penedès comarca of Tarragona, and this 5 céntimos note belongs to the wave of emergency small-change scrip — known in Catalonia as moneda de necessitat — issued by municipalities across the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War. The collapse of metallic coin circulation from 1936 onward forced even villages of a few hundred inhabitants to print their own fractional currency just to keep local commerce moving.
Barnadas, based in nearby El Vendrell, printed scrip for multiple Baix Penedès municipalities during this period. Validity was typically limited to the issuing municipality, and redemption after the Nationalist victory in 1939 was not guaranteed.