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50 Céntimos Vilallonga del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilallonga del Camp |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue ink on a light brown geometric underprint, the face is framed by a border of wavy guilloche lines. Central text block carries the municipal authority inscription and the promise-to-pay clause in Catalan, set within a plain typographic layout. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue ink on a light brown geometric underprint, the reverse is enclosed by a triple-line rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms appears to the left, with the issuing authority name in text to the right. |
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Vilallonga del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government authorised municipalities to print their own fractional currency to offset the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. Imprenta Solé of Tarragona handled a considerable number of these municipal commissions across the region — a local print shop doing emergency monetary work by necessity, not vocation.
Turró catalogued over 3,000 such issues, and survivorship varies wildly. Notes from villages this small often circulated hard within a tight geographic radius before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless in early 1939.