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5 Céntimos Os de Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Os de Balaguer |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed entirely in red. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament d'Os de Balaguer' is set in diagonal letterpress text across the upper portion, flanked by two small corner triangular ornaments. The large numeral '5' and the denomination 'cèntims' appear centred below, underlined by three horizontal rules. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Os de Balaguer 5 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Os de Balaguer, 5 Centimos) |
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Os de Balaguer is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns it was forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coins vanished almost entirely from circulation by mid-1936. The Ajuntament issued these locally-produced vales to keep petty commerce moving — a 5 céntimos piece in card stock substituting for metal that had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped being minted.
Turró catalogues this as a single reference with no recorded variants, which is typical for the smallest Catalan municipal emissions where surviving examples are few and production runs were almost certainly very short.