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50 Céntimos Vallalta del Maresme
| Issuer | Vallalta del Maresme, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Primitive wartime emergency voucher with handwritten black letterpress text stating the denomination and issuing authority across the face. A violet oval municipal control stamp is applied over the text, together with a stamped date authenticating the issue. The note bears no pictorial vignette or decorative underprint, reflecting the rudimentary production typical of Catalan municipal emergency currency of the Civil War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL PER 0`50 ctms MUNICIPAL COUNCIL - VALLALTA DEL MARESME 27 AGO. 1937 (Translation: Voucher for 50 Centimos Municipal Council - Vallalta del Maresme August 27, 1937) |
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Vallalta del Maresme is a small municipality in the comarca of Maresme, north of Barcelona, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of Catalan municipalities of comparable size, it issued its own fractional paper money in 1937 after the Republican government's Decree of 25 June 1937 attempted — largely unsuccessfully — to suppress the proliferation of local emergency currency that had flooded Catalonia since mid-1936.
Turró catalogues this as a single known type for the municipality. Given the print runs typical of villages this small, surviving examples are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.