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50 Centimos Arenys de Mar
| Issuer | Arenys de Mar, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain and unadorned reverse, presenting a flat, featureless aluminium field with no design, legend, or device of any kind, typical of hastily produced wartime emergency token coinage. |
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Arenys de Mar, a coastal town north of Barcelona, issued its own emergency coinage in 1937 as the Spanish Civil War severed normal monetary supply chains across Republican-held Catalonia. The central government's inability to maintain coin circulation drove hundreds of municipalities to mint their own low-denomination pieces, primarily in aluminium — a material chosen for availability rather than intrinsic value. Turró catalogued over a thousand such local issues from this period, and Arenys de Mar's output is among the more modestly documented.