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5 Céntimos Gelida
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gelida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | At left, the municipal coat of arms of Gelida within a shield, a stag passant above a striped field representing the four Catalan bars, rendered in blue letterpress. To the right, the denomination numeral '5' within a circle above the word 'CENTIMS', with the issuer name in bold type at upper right. Series letter designation 'Sèrie A' appears in the lower centre, below the main text block. |
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| Reverse description | A standing male worker figure in a laborer's vest occupies the left portion of the note, with an industrial vignette of factory chimneys and buildings in the background at lower left. A curved banner bearing the issuer's name spans the upper portion of the design. The denomination numeral within a circle appears at lower right, with the serial number printed in green in the centre. |
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Gelida is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed under wartime pressure. These local issues — collectively called "moneda local" or "bitllets locals" — were sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which gave municipal councils limited authority to print their own low-denomination notes to keep local commerce moving.
The Turró catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipal issues. Surviving examples from villages as small as Gelida are genuinely scarce; print runs were tiny, redemption was expected, and most were discarded or destroyed after the war.