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50 Céntimos Vilanova del Vallès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilanova del Vallès |
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| Size | 105 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the note is framed by geometric borders with guilloche-style ornamental panels. The arms of Catalonia appear as a vignette at the left, while the face value '50' is set at the upper corners. The central field carries the full municipal authority inscription in letterpress type. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE VILANOVA DEL VALLÈS 50 CÈNTIMS DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE VILANOVA DEL VALLÈS (Translation: City Council of Vilanova del Vallès 50 Centimos Mandatory course for the entire municipality of Vilanova del Vallès) |
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Vilanova del Vallès was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency small-change notes during 1936–1937, when the Civil War disrupted coin supply so severely that local councils became de facto monetary authorities by necessity rather by design. The Ajuntament printed through C.A.M. — Tipografia Centre d'Administració Municipal — a Barcelona printer that handled a substantial volume of these municipal emergency issues across the region.
Turró catalogues this as #2861, placing it within a well-documented but still locally scarce series. Municipal issues from smaller towns like Vilanova del Vallès survive in genuinely limited numbers; most circulated hard and briefly before the Nationalist advance and subsequent peseta consolidation rendered them worthless.