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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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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency issue printed in dark blue on a light blue underprint of repeated lettering and dotted guilloche pattern. A geometric border frames the entire face, with the municipal authority inscription and denomination legend arranged in horizontal text blocks. The note follows the austere letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War local currency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Vilanova de la Barca BON CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS CONTRA LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Vilanova de la Barca Bond Fifty Centimos Against the Municipal Treasury) |
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Vilanova de la Barca is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's hoarding crisis drained metallic coin from circulation almost entirely by late 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local bodies to fill the gap, producing a chaotic proliferation of *moneda local* across the region.
Turró catalogues this emission as 2825 — a number deep into a sequence that reflects just how many municipalities took up that authorization. Small-town issues from the Lleida interior tend to survive in lower quantities than urban equivalents simply due to smaller print runs and narrower circulation areas.