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50 Céntimos Vallfogona de Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vallfogona de Balaguer |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green underprint with a geometric border framing the entire face of the note. All text is rendered in black letterpress, with the issuer's name and denomination inscription arranged centrally, and an ornamental design completing the composition. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellowish paper with sparse black and blue letterpress text. The denomination and year appear in the upper register, the mandatory circulation legend is set across the centre, and a serial number is placed at lower left. Two blue ink stamps — one circular and two cursive flourishes — are applied across the reverse, likely as validation marks from the municipal authority. |
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Vallfogona de Balaguer is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency issues gave these small councils a legal framework, but production quality and survival rates varied enormously — notes from minor Catalan municipalities at this denomination level are frequently found with handling damage, as they absorbed hard daily use in local commerce before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.