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0.50 Pesetas Calders
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Calders |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 113 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | At left, an oval vignette enclosed within a scalloped guilloche border presents a partial townscape view of Calders, captioned 'Calders. Un detall' at its base, printed in blue. To the right, the issuer's name appears in large rust-red lettering at the top, followed by the authorization text in justified letterpress. The face value '0'50 Ptes.' is set in bold red numerals at lower left, with three signature lines for L'Alcalde, El Conseller de Finances, and El Dipositari below the main text block. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0`50 VÁLID SOLAMENT EN LA LOCALITAT (Translation: Valid only in the locality) |
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Calders is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republic's central supply of small coins collapsed almost entirely in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a flood of paper fraccions — most printed by regional commercial printers with whatever type and stock was at hand.
Imprenta Boixeda in nearby Manresa handled several of these municipal commissions. The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for this material, and 590 is a relatively obscure entry even within that specialized field.