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50 Céntimos Vall de Castellbó
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vall de Castellbó |
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| Size | 63 × 38 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on salmon-pink card stock, the obverse is typeset in black letterpress within a double-rule rectangular border. The issuer's name in bold capitals occupies the upper portion, with the denomination '50 CENTIMS' in large type at centre. A circular violet municipality stamp with a small vignette of a castle or tower is applied to the left field, and a handwritten mayoral signature appears to the right below the legend 'L'Alcalde,'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same salmon-pink card stock and is largely plain, carrying only a stamped serial number in black at centre. |
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Vall de Castellbó is a tiny municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of the Lleida province, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the vast output of Catalan emergency paper money — the *moneda de paper* — produced by local councils during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. Thousands of municipalities issued their own notes under Republican decree, and the smallest issued the smallest denominations on whatever card stock was at hand. Turró catalogued over 3,600 distinct emissions; this one sits near the upper end of that numbering.