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50 Céntimos Vilaplana
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Vilaplana |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on orange-tinted card stock, the obverse carries the issuer name 'Consell Municipal' in bold blackletter type at the top, with 'Vilaplana' centred below and separated by a full-width horizontal rule. The series designation 'Sèrie A' and a handwritten serial number appear on a dotted line at mid-field, with the large denomination numeral '50' and the word 'céntims' in bold type occupying the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal Vilaplana Sèrie A N° 50 céntims (Translation: Municipal Council Vilaplana / Series A / No. / 50 Centimos) |
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Vilaplana is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These locally printed vales and bitllets filled an immediate transactional void — small-denomination coins had vanished into hoarding almost overnight.
The Turró catalogue documents over three thousand such municipal issues from across Republican-held Spain, which puts the scarcity of any individual piece in sharp perspective. Vilaplana's output was tiny even by the standards of the series.