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50 Céntimos Castellvell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellvell del Camp (Municipality of Castellvell del Camp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CASTELLVELL 1937 Val de circulació 50 centims N. 92 (Translation: Castellvell 1937 Circulation voucher 50 Centimos No. 92) |
| Reverse description | Plain yellowish card stock reverse bearing two violet circular municipal ink stamps at left, with a handwritten countersignature in blue ink at centre-right consisting of the mayoral title and a cursive signature. |
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Castellvell del Camp is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 after Republican-zone coin shortages made small change functionally extinct. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency emissions, but standardization was loose — each ajuntament essentially improvised, which is why output from villages this size was typically limited to a few hundred or few thousand pieces.
Turró's documentation of this emission is thin, and surviving examples are correspondingly rare.