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50 Céntimos Vilassar de Dalt
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilassar de Dalt (Municipality of Vilassar de Dalt) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured note printed in blue, with a ruled perimeter frame enclosing a central vignette of the Castle of Barberà alongside an allegorical group representing industry, agriculture and science, incorporating a cogwheel, a sickle and books. Issuing authority and denomination inscriptions are arranged around the vignette in letterpress type. |
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| Reverse description | The face value numeral is set within a central circle, surrounded by an ornamental border executed in brown and yellow, forming a simple but structured compositional frame typical of Civil War-era Catalan municipal emergency issues. |
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Vilassar de Dalt is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it resorted to printing its own fractional currency when the Republican government's coin shortage became acute after 1936. The hoarding and melting of silver and copper left retail trade nearly paralyzed, and municipal emergency notes — printed locally, valid only within the issuing town — were the practical answer. Turró catalogues over three thousand such emissions from across Spain; this is one of them.
Printed by a local press rather than a Barcelona commercial printer, which was common for the smaller Maresme towns.