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50 Céntimos Vilajuïga
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilajuïga |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Vilajuiga VAL PER 50 CENTIMS Quantitat reemborsable a la caixa Municipal (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilajuiga Valid for 50 Centimos Refundable amount to the Municipal Treasury) |
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| Reverse lettering | Consell Municipal de Vilajuiga 50 CENTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Vilajuiga 50 Centimos) |
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Vilajuïga is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally printed notes — collectively called "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — were produced by municipal councils with whatever printing resources were nearby. Imprenta Trayter in Figueres served several Alt Empordà towns in this capacity.
The thick card stock was a deliberate practical choice, intended to survive repeated handling in small commercial transactions where metal coinage had simply vanished from circulation.