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50 Céntimos Valls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Valls (Municipality of Valls) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on a light beige stippled underprint, the obverse centres on the local coat of arms of Valls flanked by a vignette of factories to the left and a rural landscape to the right. Letterpress text in Catalan records the municipal treasury's obligation to the bearer, including the date of authorising session and place of issue. The denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' appears in bold lettering above and below the central design. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on a light beige stippled underprint, the reverse presents the face value '50 CÈNTIMS' in bold letterpress surrounded by simple geometric border designs. A brief Catalan legend restricts the note's validity to local circulation within Valls. |
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One of hundreds of emergency paper issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage left local economies effectively paralyzed. The Republican government's inability to maintain coin supply pushed the burden onto town councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses — each printing their own scrip with whatever press happened to be available locally.
Imprenta E. Castells was a Valls-based commercial printer, not a security printer. The technical limitations show.