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50 Céntimos Vilanova de Segrià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilanova de Segrià |
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| Size | 46 × 40 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress printing on cream-coloured thick card stock in black ink. The issuer name 'Consell Municipal' appears in large bold type at the top, with 'Vilanova de Segrià' set in smaller type below, the two separated from the denomination area by a horizontal rule. The value legend 'VAL per 0'50 Cts.' is set in bold type at the foot of the note, with a manuscript blue ink signature occupying the central field between the rule and the denomination line. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream-coloured card stock with no typeset design or text. The surface carries handwritten pencil notations and a cursive blue ink inscription, almost certainly added by a subsequent owner or collector rather than at the time of issue. |
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Vilanova de Segrià is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos piece belongs to the enormous wave of local emergency paper money — the moneda local or paper moneda — issued by Catalan and other Spanish municipalities during the Civil War years of 1936–1939, when Republican-zone coinage of small denominations essentially vanished from circulation. The copper and nickel coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped circulating, leaving local councils with no practical option but to print their own.
At 46 × 40 mm, the format is characteristic of the smallest-denomination municipals — more token than banknote, really. Turró's cataloguing of over three thousand such issues from across Catalonia alone gives some measure of how widespread the problem was.