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50 Céntimos Colldejou
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Colldejou |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 75 × 41 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress issue on thick card stock, with the coat of arms of the Generalitat de Catalunya positioned to the left. The text, printed in black, carries the municipal authority's legend and the stated purpose of the voucher as small-change currency. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette or decorative underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse left entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of the amber-toned card stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Colldejou is a village in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. That such a settlement issued its own emergency paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain during 1936–37 forced thousands of municipalities, however tiny, to print their own vales or cartones to keep local commerce moving. These Catalan municipal issues are catalogued collectively under the term "moneda local" and numbered in the thousands of distinct types.
The Turró reference places this squarely within that documented corpus. Small-run village issues like this one were rarely produced in quantities exceeding a few hundred pieces, and survival rates are correspondingly low.