Catalog
50 Céntimos Vidreres
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vidreres (Municipality of Vidreres) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Pink note with a geometric guilloche underprint, printed in brown, with an ornamental rectangular border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Vidreres is centered at the top, with the full text of the issuance authorization arranged in multiple lines below, referencing the municipal council resolution of 29 March 1937 and the October 1937 emission date. The denomination 'CINQUANTA CENTIMS' appears at the foot of the text block. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in grayish-blue on plain paper, the reverse is enclosed within an ornate letterpress border composed of scrollwork and acanthus-leaf corner ornaments with guilloche-style column elements at the sides. The large numeral '50' is set centrally in bold outlined figures, with the Catalan denomination 'CINQUANTA Cèntims' inscribed immediately below in serif lettering. |
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Vidreres is a small town in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 authorized local authorities to plug the catastrophic shortage of small change — silver and copper coinage had vanished almost entirely from circulation within weeks of the July uprising.
These municipal emissions were purely local instruments, valid only within the issuing town. The Turró catalogue remains the standard reference for this class of Spanish Civil War local issues, and 2741 places this squarely among the more obscure Catalan emissions.