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50 Céntimos Vacarisses
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vacarisses |
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| Size | 65 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on orange-buff card stock in dark ink, the obverse is a typeset design enclosed within a single rectangular border. The issuing authority and denomination are set in bold block lettering arranged in three tiers, with a serial number printed vertically along the left margin. A clause of legal tender is set in smaller type along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VACARISSES VAL PER CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS De curs obligatori en aquest terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Vacarisses Valid for Fifty Centimos Mandatory course in this municipal term) |
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Vacarisses is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These municipal issues — known collectively as moneda de necessitat — were produced locally, often on whatever card stock the town hall had available, with no standardized printing infrastructure behind them.
Turró's catalog documents thousands of such issues; Vacarisses #2627 is among the more obscure entries, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon simply because so little was produced to begin with.