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5 Céntimos Vilanova de la Barca
| Issuer | Ajuntament Popular de Vilanova de la Barca |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2833 |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vilanova de la Barca Número VAL 5 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Vilanova de la Barca / Number / It is worth 5 centimes) |
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| Protection description | Oval violet hand-applied municipal ink stamp on the reverse, reading "AJUNTAMENT POPULAR DE VILANOVA DE LA BARCA" with a central heraldic boat vignette, serving as the primary authentication mark. |
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Vilanova de la Barca is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it issued its own emergency small-change currency during the Civil War after metallic coin essentially vanished from circulation in 1936. The Ajuntament Popular — the "Popular Council," reflecting the Republican administrative structure of the period — produced these locally as a practical stopgap, not as a political statement. Turró catalogs thousands of such issues; this one is among the more obscure, with no known print run figures.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication, a common solution when printing resources were limited to whatever a small town hall could access.