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50 Céntimos Vilamajor
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilamajor |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Green underprint with dark blue letterpress text throughout. The municipal coat of arms of Barcelona occupies the upper left corner, while a cogwheel and an ear of wheat appear in the lower right corner as symbolic vignettes representing labour and agriculture. The face value and issuing authority are set in bold typeface within a plain bordered frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CTS. AJUNTAMENT DE VILAMAJOR BITLLET DE CURS OBLIGATORI AL TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Vilamajor Mandatory course banknote in the Municipal Term) |
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Vilamajor issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 under the Republican municipal authority system that authorized Catalan town councils to produce their own small-denomination paper during the Civil War coin shortage. The Generalitat's decree effectively deputized hundreds of municipalities to fill a gap that neither Madrid nor Barcelona could solve centrally — the result was an explosion of highly localized scrip, much of it printed by small commercial shops in Barcelona fulfilling bulk orders from surrounding towns.
El Secretariat Català handled multiple such municipal commissions. Survival rates for these low-denomination wartime issues are unpredictable; many circulated hard before the Nationalist victory rendered them worthless in 1939.