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50 Céntimos Aguilar de Segarra
| Issuer | Aguilar de Segarra, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green note with the issuing authority's name in bold letterpress across the upper portion. An oval vignette at upper left contains an eagle emblem. The denomination CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS is set in large display type at centre, with the numeral 50 CTS at lower right. Three manuscript signature lines appear at lower centre, attributed to El Secretari, El Conseller de Finances, and El President del Consell, above a circular red official stamp at left. |
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| Reverse description | Olive-green reverse with a light underprint vignette of wheat ears across the centre-right field. The heading BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI is printed in bold letterpress at top. The place and date Aguilar de Segarra, abril 1937 appear in italic script below, with a serial number at centre. The denomination CINQUANTA CTS. is set in large bold type at lower left, and the numeral 50 CTS. at lower right. A circular red official municipality stamp is applied at upper right. |
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Aguilar de Segarra is a tiny municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and by 1937 its local government was doing what hundreds of Spanish Republican municipalities were forced to do: print its own fractional currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coinage. Metal had been hoarded, requisitioned, or simply stopped circulating as the war consumed the economy. El Secretariat Català handled a significant share of this emergency municipal printing work out of Barcelona, producing notes for dozens of these small councils under similar conditions.
Turró catalogues this issue under #14, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal series — though survival rates for these low-denomination wartime locals are erratic at best.