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50 Céntimos Vilalba dels Arcs
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilalba dels Arcs |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in red on cream paper, with a dotted rectangular underprint border and vertical ruled bands flanking the left margin, each containing the numeral '50' in diamond cartouches. The central text field carries the issuing authority's name at the top, followed by the bearer clause and the denomination in large bold type. A circular red municipal seal of Vilalba dels Arcs is applied to the left centre, overlaid by a handwritten signature in violet ink below the printed title 'El Cap del Consell Municipal'; the serial number and date 'Març del 1937' appear at the foot, with the printer's imprint 'Imp. Bassa - Mora d'Ebre - Telèf. 36' along the bottom edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 El Consell Municipal de Vilalba RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE Cinquanta Cèntims El Cap del Consell Municipal Núm. 1254 Març del 1937 Imp. BASSA.-Mora d'Ebre-Telèf. 36 (Translation: The Municipal Council of Vilalba recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimes. The Head of the Municipal Council. No. 1254. March 1937. Printer: Bassa, Mora d'Ebre, Tel. 36) |
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Vilalba dels Arcs is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, its local council was forced to print emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's coin supply effectively collapsed in 1936–37. Imprenta Bassa in Mora d'Ebre served as the practical printing resource for several surrounding municipalities in the region, which is why notes from otherwise unrelated councils in Terra Alta share recognizable typographic similarities.
Turró's catalog documents well over 2,000 such emergency emissions from this period, and the sheer number of issuing bodies — many with populations under a thousand — means surviving examples range wildly in scarcity. Vilalba dels Arcs had fewer than 800 inhabitants at the time.