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50 Céntimos Vila-sana
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vila-sana |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in brown ink on plain paper, the face presents a geometric border framing the entire field. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT DE VILA-SANA appears underlined at the top, with the body text set in a formal letterpress style acknowledging the bearer's entitlement to the stated value. The date of issue, 20 de Maig del 1937, is incorporated within the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue ink, the reverse carries the face value and series designation in typeset lettering, enclosed within a simple border of dotted lines. A serial number appears within the composition. The overall layout is utilitarian, consistent with locally produced wartime emergency currency. |
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Vila-sana is a tiny municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when the Republic's central supply of small coin collapsed entirely in 1936–37. The Generalitat could not keep pace with demand, and local ayuntamientos stepped in by legal necessity rather than monetary ambition.
Turró documents these emergency municipals exhaustively, and #2878 is among the more obscure entries — Vila-sana's population at the time was well under a thousand, meaning total print runs were almost certainly in the hundreds rather than thousands. Survivors are genuinely rare simply because so few were made.