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50 Céntimos Villafranca del Cid
| Issuer | Villafranca del Cid, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain grey paper stock with all text and border printed in red letterpress. A single rectangular frame with a double-rule inner border encloses the entire design. The issuing authority name 'Consejo Municipal / Villafranca del Cid' is set in large block capitals at the top, separated from the denomination area by a double horizontal rule; a handwritten serial number prefixed 'Núm.' appears at centre, with the denomination '0,50 CÉNTIMOS' in bold capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on the same grey paper stock as the obverse, with no design elements, lettering, or ornamentation, consistent with the utilitarian character of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issued in the Province of Castellón. |
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Villafranca del Cid — now Vilafranca, in the Castellón province of Valencia — was one of hundreds of small Spanish municipalities forced to produce emergency fractional paper during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation by mid-1936. Hoarding, melting, and the simple breakdown of normal supply chains gutted the coinage supply everywhere behind Republican lines. Local councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses filled the gap with whatever they could print or stamp.
The Gari Mon catalogue remains the primary reference for these Valencian municipal emissions, most of which were produced in tiny quantities and saw intensely local circulation — sometimes only within a single town's market.