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50 Céntimos Viladecavalls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Viladecavalls |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in red on cream card stock, with a single-line rectangular perimeter frame enclosing all text. A scattered star underprint in light red-brown covers the field, serving as a rudimentary security measure. The entire design is text-based, with no pictorial vignette, relying solely on the authority of the issuing municipality's inscriptions. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILADECAVALLS Val a favor del portador CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS, garantida per paper de curs legal. Viladecavalls, maig del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Viladecavalls Voucher in favor of the bearer Fifty Centimos, guaranteed by legal tender paper. Viladecavalls, May 1937.) |
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Viladecavalls is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to issuing its own fractional emergency currency during 1936–37 after the Civil War disrupted the national coin supply almost entirely. The Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination metallic circulation forced municipalities, trade unions, and cooperatives across the loyalist zone to paper over the gap themselves — legally dubious but practically unavoidable.
Turró catalogs this emission under a single reference, suggesting the municipality produced a limited and uncomplicated series. The thick card stock was a deliberate choice at many small issuers: thinner paper wore out too quickly for notes handling daily market transactions.