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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 description | Printed in blue and brown, the face is framed by geometric borders enclosing the issuing authority's inscriptions and the stated value. A vignette of Quermançó Castle, situated approximately one kilometre from the town, occupies the upper left corner. The overall layout is typical of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency currency produced by letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured card stock surface with no design, text, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Vilajuïga is a small municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly tiny towns during the Spanish Civil War, it found itself forced to produce its own emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of 1937 formalized what was already happening informally across the region. Central coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable — leaving local councils with no practical alternative.
Imprenta Trayter in Figueres printed for numerous Alt Empordà municipalities during this period, which means the production quality is more consistent than notes run off on whatever press happened to be available. Figueres itself fell to Nationalist forces in February 1939, effectively ending the circulation life of every note in this series.