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50 Céntimos Cecília de Voltregà
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cecília de Voltregà |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark navy blue on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative border of floral and scroll ornaments with solid black triangular cornerpieces. The issuer's name is set in bold uppercase letterpress type at the top, with the denomination '50 cèntims' in large central characters; a red serial number appears to the upper right. A redemption clause in Catalan occupies the lower central field, set in smaller uppercase type, below which two manuscript signature lines are reserved for the Secretary-Auditor and the Mayor, with the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Cecília de Voltregà is a small municipality in the Osona comarca of Catalonia, and its wartime scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of Civil War-era paper money that emerged after the Republican government's decree authorizing local councils to issue emergency currency. By 1937, coin had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and thousands of municipalities across Republican-held Spain filled the gap with locally printed notes. The Imprenta Ausetana in nearby Vic served several Osona councils during this period, which accounts for family resemblances across issues from the region.
Turró catalogues this as #794, placing it within a well-documented but enormous body of material.