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5 Céntimos Vallcebre
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallcebre (Municipality of Vallcebre) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note with dark blue letterpress text throughout. A circular vignette of the coat of arms of Catalonia appears to the left, while a rural vignette to the right illustrates a pine forest with wheat and potato plants, evoking the agricultural character of the locality. The text is arranged in multiple registers across the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Light pink note with reddish-brown letterpress text. The central vignette comprises two animals characteristic of the local woodland — a rabbit and a squirrel — rendered in a simple illustrative style. Denomination and currency obligation text are arranged in registers above and below the vignette. |
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Vallcebre is a tiny mountain municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That such a settlement was issuing its own emergency paper money in 1937 speaks directly to the collapse of small-denomination coinage during the Civil War — Republican-controlled areas faced an acute shortage of copper and bronze coin, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by printing their own fractional notes, known collectively as "moneda local" or, more pejoratively, "paper de duro."
El Secretariat Català printed for numerous small Catalan issuers during this period, functioning as a clearinghouse printer for municipal emergency currency across the region. Turró's catalog documents well over 2,000 such issues; this note sits at #2651 in that sequence.