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50 Céntimos Vinaixa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Vinaixa (Municipality of Vinaixa) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed text in black on a dark beige ground, with the municipal coat of arms of Vinaixa positioned to the right. Flanking the face value are vignettes of ears of wheat and bunches of grapes, motifs evoking the local agricultural economy. The central text block carries the authorizing municipal declaration in Catalan, dated 3 August 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT DE VINAIXA Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS per acord municipal. VINAIXA, 3 agost 1937. (Translation: The City Council of Vinaixa Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos by municipal agreement. Vinaixa, August 3, 1937.) |
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Vinaixa is a tiny municipality in the Les Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and its decision to issue fractional paper money in 1937 was driven entirely by the coin shortage that paralyzed small transactions across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. The Generalitat had encouraged — then eventually tried to control — this wave of municipal and cooperative emergency scrip, but hundreds of local issues appeared anyway, printed by whatever press was available.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled a number of these small-town issues from the region. For a village the size of Vinaixa, the total print run would have been negligible, which is precisely why surviving examples are harder to find than the more famous Barcelona municipal series.