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50 Céntimos Artés
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Artés |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 112 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in green and red on cream paper, enclosed within a multi-band ornamental border of repeating floral and geometric motifs in green. The issuer's title CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'ARTÉS appears in large red letters across the top. To the left, a ruled rectangular cartouche contains the denomination VAL DE CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS in green and red letterpress. To the right, the authorising text, date of issue (Artés, Juny del 1937), and three manuscript signatures are arranged beneath the role designations L'ALCALDE, EL TRESORER, and L'INTERVENTOR. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and red on cream paper with a light tonal underprint of repeating interlocking arabesque motifs. A chain-link ornamental border frames the design on all sides. The left panel carries the text VAL UNIC AUTORITZAT DINS D'AQUEST TERME MUNICIPAL in green letterpress, flanked above and below by small red triangular pointing ornaments. A double vertical rule divides the field, to the right of which the denomination 0'50 is printed in large red numerals within a circular dotted-line cartouche in green. A red serial number appears below, preceded by the abbreviation Nº. The printer's imprint IMP. BOIXEDA · MANRESA appears at the foot of the note. |
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Artés is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Republican-held towns, it issued its own fractional emergency currency during the Civil War after the withdrawal of metallic coin from circulation in 1936–37. These local notes — known collectively as moneda de paper or paper money of the municipalities — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's framework for local monetary substitutes, though the practical oversight was minimal and designs varied wildly from town to town.
Imprenta Boixeda in nearby Manresa handled production for several Bages-area councils, which gives this issue a slightly more professional finish than some village-press equivalents. Turró catalogued over 1,600 distinct municipal issues; #218 places Artés well into the mid-range of that corpus.