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50 Céntimos Vilanova de la Barca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova de la Barca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on light blue paper with the full text of the municipal guarantee rendered in blue ink, enclosed within a geometric rectangular border. The inscriptions, arranged in centred blocks, convey the denomination, issuing authority, and legal tender clause for local circulation. The overall layout is typographic, with no pictorial vignette, relying entirely on text and the ruled perimeter frame for its design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de VILANOVA DE LA BARCA Val de cinquanta cèntims circulació obligatòria dintre la població, amb garantia de l`Ajuntament. Vilanova de la Barca, març del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Vilanova de la Barca It is worth Fifty Centimos mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Vilanova de la Barca, March 1937.) |
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Vilanova de la Barca is a small municipality in the Lleida interior, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during 1936–1937, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone. These local issues, collectively catalogued in the Turró reference, were a patchwork solution to a practical crisis, not a coordinated monetary policy. Many were printed on whatever stock the town hall had available, which is why paper quality varies so dramatically within the series.
Turró 2823 is among the more obscure entries from the Lleida province. Documentation on print runs is essentially nonexistent.