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50 Céntimos Vilatorta
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vilatorta (Municipality of Vilatorta) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE VILATORTA Nº 1279 * 50 CENTIMS CURS OBLIGATORI L'intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament (Translation: City Council of Vilatorta / 50 Centimos / Mandatory currency / The attempt to disrupt the circulation of this Voucher will be severely sanctioned) |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain, unprinted reverse on cream-coloured card stock, showing natural fibre texture and age toning consistent with the period of issue. |
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Vilatorta is a small municipality in Osona, Catalonia, and this 50 céntimos note is one of the thousands of locally issued emergency fractional pieces — called moneda local or vals — that flooded Catalonia and the rest of the Republican zone after July 1936, when the hoarding of metal coins during the Civil War created an acute shortage of small change. Municipal councils, trade unions, and cooperatives all issued their own paper, with no central authority controlling design, quality, or redemption guarantees.
The Turró catalogue remains the primary reference for these Catalan emissions; a Turró number places this squarely within that documented corpus, though redemption records for villages this size rarely survive.