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50 Céntimos Vilanova de Meià
| Issuer | Vilanova de Meià, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on cream paper with a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint in light greenish grey. The denomination '50 cts.' appears in large red numerals at left and right, with the word 'bon' in bold red letterpress at centre above the inscription 'contra la CAIXA MUNICIPAL'. The issuing authority 'Ajuntament de Vilanova de Meià' is printed in red along the top border. Three signature lines for Alcalde, Secretari, and Finances appear at the lower portion of the note, each bearing a handwritten blue ink signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Cinquanta cèntims Emissió: 12 Setembre 1937 Venciment: 12 Setembre 1938 Curs obligatori per a canvi en tot el Districte Municipal de Vilanova de Meià (Translation: Fifty Centimos Issue: September 12, 1937 Expiration: September 12, 1938 Mandatory currency for change throughout the Municipal District of Vilanova de Meià) |
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Vilanova de Meià is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Comitè Local or municipal council authorized these notes to keep local commerce functioning — national small change had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation almost overnight.
Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer printed for several towns in the region during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance some collectors notice across different municipal issues from Noguera.