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 | Letterpress-printed note in black and red on paper with a vertical light blue line underprint. A single-line rectangular border frames the entire face, with the municipal coat of arms of Vidreres positioned at the upper centre. All text is arranged in a structured block layout below the arms, with the face value and issuing authority rendered in larger type. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQUANTA CENTIMS VAL de circulació obligatòria per tot el terme municipal de Vidreres (Translation: Fifty Centimos Voucher of mandatory circulation throughout the municipality of Vidreres) |
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Vidreres is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. These local emergency notes, collectively known as moneda local or paper moneda, were authorized under Generalitat decree and are catalogued today in the thousands of varieties across Catalonia alone.
Turró's catalog remains the standard reference for this material, and the 2739 number places this squarely within the dense mid-series Catalan municipal issues. Surviving examples from villages this size tend to be genuinely scarce — production runs were small and most were redeemed or discarded when the Nationalist forces consolidated control of the region in mid-1939.