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0.50 Pesetas Port de la Selva
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Port de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A panoramic vignette of the bay of Port de la Selva on the Costa Brava occupies the central field, with the town visible along the shoreline and hills in the background. A circular compass rose with the four cardinal points frames an inset emblem of Catalonia. Denomination and municipal authority inscriptions are arranged around the central vignette in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT 0`50 PESSETES PORT DE LA SELVA (Translation: City Council 0.50 Pesetas Port de la Selva) |
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Port de la Selva is a small fishing village on the Costa Brava, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of late 1936 effectively authorized local emergency notes to fill the acute shortage of small coin. The Trayter press in nearby Figueres handled a significant volume of these Empordà-area municipal issues, which gives the series a certain regional coherence — though the notes themselves were only valid within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
Turró catalogues this as #1968. Surviving examples are not rare as a type, but condition varies sharply given the rough handling typical of wartime pocket change.