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50 Céntimos Vic
| Issuer | Vic, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Note printed in black and reddish-brown on plain paper, centred with a vignette of the god Mercury in profile wearing a winged helmet, set within a cogwheel border as an allegory of commerce and industry. The denomination '50 cts.' appears in the lower field, flanked by the issuing authority inscription. Surrounding text references the municipal agreement of 7 June 1937 authorising this mandatory local-circulation note. |
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| Reverse description | Note printed in black and reddish-brown, with a vignette offering a partial view of the Plaça del Mercadal in Vic, a historic market square enclosed by 56 Gothic vaults. In the foreground, two peasant women are shown carrying baskets filled with birds and agricultural produce, evoking the commercial and rural character of the plaza. The denomination and issuing authority inscription are repeated in the surrounding text. |
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Vic's local emergency currency from 1937 belongs to the vast ecosystem of Catalan municipal fractional notes produced during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply forced towns to print their own. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities did exactly this, and the results vary wildly in quality and survival rates.
Indústries Gràfiques Viladot, a Barcelona commercial printer, handled output for numerous municipalities simultaneously, which sometimes complicates attribution when undated or unlabeled examples surface without their series markings intact.