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50 Céntimos Castellbell i el Vilar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellbell i el Vilar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Tipografia Centre d'Administració Municipal (C.A.M.), Barcelona, Spain |
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| Reverse description | The central design consists of a large oval guilloche medallion enclosing the numeral '50' above the denomination 'CÈNTIMS', the whole set within a bold rectangular frame with angular stepped corner ornaments and lateral geometric extensions in a fan-like pattern. The issuing authority name arcs along the upper margin in large letterpress capitals, with the face value numerals '0,50' repeated at the upper left and right. The printer's imprint appears in small text at the foot of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | 0,50 AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLBELL I EL VILAR 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: City Council of Castellbell i el Vilar 50 Centimos) |
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Castellbell i el Vilar is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly modest towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1936 effectively authorized local authorities to fill the coin shortage caused by hoarding and metal requisitioning. The C.A.M. in Barcelona produced notes for dozens of these municipalities, which accounts for the typographic consistency across what were ostensibly independent local emissions.
Turró's catalog documents the series exhaustively; #696 places this squarely within the dense middle section of Catalan municipal issues, where surviving populations of individual notes can be tiny simply because the issuing town was small and redemption was rarely organized before the Nationalist takeover ended the Republican zone entirely.