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5 Céntimos Vespella de Gaià
| Issuer | Vespella de Gaià, Municipality of |
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| Value | 5 Centimos (0.05 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Centimos Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel. Vespella |
| Reverse description | Blank reverse, though examples are known to have been produced on the backs of pre-printed business cards or similar card stock, occasionally retaining residual commercial lettering from the source material. |
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Vespella de Gaià is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona with a population that, during the 1930s, barely exceeded a few hundred souls. Notes like this one — local emergency fractional currency issued during the Spanish Civil War — were produced by hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed almost entirely after July 1936. The coinage hoarding was immediate and near-universal.
Turró catalogs over three thousand such emissions. At 53 × 43 mm on thick card stock, this is physically closer to a bus ticket than a banknote, which is essentially what it functioned as.