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50 Céntimos Castellví de la Marca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellví de la Marca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse text in mirror image visible through the thin paper stock, overlaid by a large oval municipal rubber stamp in violet ink at centre, with handwritten annotations in ink at upper right. |
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| Signature(s) | M. Mas Ballester (Secretari Interventor), Pere Casals (Alcalde) and Antoni Bolet (Dipositari) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes printed by Catalan town councils during the early months of the Civil War, when the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. Castellví de la Marca is a minor municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca — its economic activity centered on viticulture — and a note from this village would have circulated almost exclusively within the immediate locality, redeemable in theory at the town hall.
Three signatories were required: the mayor, the treasurer, and the secretary-comptroller. That level of bureaucratic formality in a wartime scrip note from a village of a few hundred inhabitants is quietly telling.