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50 Céntimos Castellbell i el Vilar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellbell i el Vilar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, an oval vignette encloses the municipal coat of arms — a castle tower with pennant flanked by wheat sheaves — set against a mottled underprint in pale green and grey tones. To the right, the denomination CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS is rendered in large bold letterpress type, with the authorising text disposed above and the numeral 50 Cts. at lower right. Two manuscript signatures appear beneath the authorisation text, attributed to l'Alcalde and El Dipositari respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLBELL I EL VILAR Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Segons acord del 11 de Desembre del 1937. L'Alcalde El Dipositari MARTÍ, MARÍ Y Cía. BARCELONA (Translation: City Council of Castellbell i el Vilar Recognizes in favor of the bearer the sum of Fifty Centimes According to the agreement of December 11, 1937. The Mayor The Treasurer MARTÍ, MARÍ Y Cía. BARCELONA) |
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Castellbell i el Vilar is a small municipality in the Bages comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat had encouraged — then attempted to regulate — this explosion of local paper, but many ajuntaments simply printed what they needed. Turró catalogs well over a thousand such issues.
Martí, Marí y Cía. in Barcelona printed for numerous municipalities simultaneously, which makes their work among the most historically dense of any small commercial printer operating during the conflict.