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50 Céntimos Vila-seca de Solcina
| Issuer | Vila-seca de Solcina, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Solé, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress text on a green geometric guilloche underprint with a repeating floral and lattice border framing the entire face. The denomination '0`50' appears in large figures at left and right, flanking the central text block with the issuing authority and promise-to-pay legend. Three handwritten signatures appear along the lower portion, attributed to L'Alcalde, El C. de Finances, and El Caixer, above the date Vila-seca, 1er d'Abril del 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a geometric underprint with semicircular and diamond-pattern guilloche elements. The series letter and denomination value are printed centrally, with a serial number completing the face. |
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Vila-seca de Solcina was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the collapse of small-coin circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-denomination coinage forced local councils — many of them operating under anarcho-syndicalist or socialist control — to print their own emergency scrip, valid only within their own jurisdictions. These notes were technically illegal under central government regulations but practically tolerated out of necessity.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled several of these municipal commissions in the province, which accounts for a certain consistency in paper quality and typographic execution across different issuing bodies. The Turró catalogue remains the primary reference for the full scope of Catalan Civil War municipal issues.