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50 Céntimos Codines del Vallès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Codines del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CODINES DEL VALLÈS VAL per CINQUANTA cèntims quantitat reemborsable a la Caixa Municipal, en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament, de data 10 de maig del 1937. Codines del Vallès, maig del 1937 L'Alcalde El Secretari-Interventor (Translation: City Council of Codines del Vallès Valid for FIFTY centimos, amount reimbursable at the Municipal Treasury, by virtue of an agreement of the City Council dated 10 May 1937. Codines del Vallès, May 1937. The Mayor. The Secretary-Controller.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central rectangular panel bearing the denomination numeral and Catalan text, framed by the municipal coat of arms of Codines del Vallès rendered in circular form, all enclosed within the same elaborate scallop-edged guilloche border in blue as seen on the obverse, with repeating lace-pattern and figural motifs along the margins. |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known collectively as paper moneda local — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican zone's coin supply effectively collapsed in 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to fill the gap, and Codines del Vallès, a small town in the Vallès Oriental comarca, did exactly that. Imprenta Avant in Barcelona handled printing for numerous such councils simultaneously, which is why the production quality here is noticeably more consistent than notes printed by smaller local shops.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for this series; his number 840 places this emission within a documented but modestly studied corner of the Civil War monetary record.