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0.50 Peseta Juneda
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Juneda (Municipality of Juneda) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Juneda appears to the left, flanked by the four-bar emblem of Catalonia to the right, set against a ground of floral guilloche decorations. The face value and issuing authority inscription are arranged within the central field, with additional text detailing the guarantee of issue and its mandatory local circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE JUNEDA 0`50 PESSETA Emissió garantida per la Caixa Municipal, acord 4 setembre del 1937 De curs obligatori a la vila y el seu terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Juneda 0.50 Peseta Issue guaranteed by the Municipal Treasury, agreement September 4, 1937 Mandatory currency in the town and its municipality) |
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Juneda is a small agricultural town in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin shortages made small transactions impossible. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coinage supply forced this patchwork of local paper into everyday use from 1936 onward.
The Turró catalog documents over 1,800 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. Juneda's entry is among the more obscure — surviving examples turn up rarely, reflecting both the limited original print run and the near-total disruption of the region following the Nationalist advance through Lleida in early 1938.