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50 Céntimos Vallbona d'Anoia
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallbona d'Anoia |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on cream card stock, the face is framed by a simple rectangular border composed of repetitive small square and diamond ornamental elements. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE VALLBONA D'ANOIA' is set in two lines of bold letterpress capitals across the upper portion, with the denomination 'Val per 50 cts.' displayed in large bold type below. A circular official municipal stamp impression in blue-violet ink is visible at centre-right. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VALLBONA D'ANOIA Val per 50 cts. (Translation: City Council of Vallbona d'Anoia Valid for 50 Centimos) |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation forced towns to print their own. Vallbona d'Anoia, a village in the Anoia comarca with a population measured in the hundreds, issued these locally rather than rely on the regional supply organized through the Generalitat.
The thick card stock was a practical choice — thin paper disintegrated quickly in daily use at the market or the tavern. Most surviving examples from villages this small exist in tiny quantities simply because so few were printed to begin with.