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50 Céntimos Vallcebre
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallcebre (Municipality of Vallcebre) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE VALLCEBRE Pagarà al portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Segons acord Municipal del 10 d'Octubre del 1937 50 cts. (Translation: The City Council of Vallcebre Will pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos According to Municipal agreement of October 10, 1937 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Light blue note with red-pink letterpress text. The central vignette carries two fauna motifs characteristic of the local woodland — a rabbit and a squirrel — rendered in a simple illustrative style. The denomination and mandatory circulation legend are printed above and below the vignette. |
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Vallcebre is a small mountain municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, with a population that likely never exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. That such a minor settlement issued its own fractional currency in 1937 reflects just how completely the Republican monetary system had fragmented — hundreds of Catalan municipalities, unable to obtain sufficient small change from Barcelona, simply printed their own. The Generalitat tolerated it rather than endorsed it.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled an enormous volume of these local emergency issues during 1936–38, which is why the printing quality across Turró's Catalan series is surprisingly consistent even for the smallest towns.