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50 Céntimos Vilaplana
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilaplana |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark navy blue letterpress printing on plain cream paper, enclosed within a multi-rule rectangular border with decorative corner notches. The issuer's name in bold serif type occupies the upper portion, with the bearer clause in italic script below; the denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' is set in large outlined letters against a vertically lined underprint panel at centre. The place and date are inscribed in italic script at lower centre, flanked by the manuscript signatures of the Alcalde and the Dipositari in blue ink. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, the reverse presents a plain cream paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Vilaplana is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish townships during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper scrip when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local emissions — collectively documented in the thousands across Spain — were sanctioned under a framework that effectively devolved currency production to the municipal level, producing a near-infinite variety of hyperlocal notes, many of which were printed in tiny quantities and never redeemed after the Nationalist victory rendered them worthless.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for Catalan municipal issues, and the 2868 numbering places this squarely within the documented corpus, though survival rates for small-village scrip of this type are unpredictable — some issues are genuinely scarce simply because the issuing population was in the hundreds.