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50 Céntimos Artesa de Lleida
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Artesa de Lleida |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 92 × 52 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette consists of the heraldic shield of Catalonia — four vertical red bars on gold — set within an oval guilloche frame with scrollwork arabesques. Laurel branches surmount the shield. Circular cartouches bearing '50 Centims' flank the central vignette at left and right. A serial number in red appears at upper right, and the mandatory currency legend is printed in script along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Centims Curs Obligatori a ARTESA DE LLEIDA (Translation: 50 Centimos Mandatory currency in Artesa de Lleida) |
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Artesa de Lleida was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively sanctioned local money production to address the acute coin shortage. The Ajuntament's series, catalogued under Turró 230, belongs to the broader phenomenon of moneda local that produced over a thousand distinct issues across Catalonia alone between 1936 and 1939.
Municipal issues from small Lleida province towns are among the harder series to complete — low original print runs, wartime attrition, and post-Franco suppression of Republican-era material all reduced survival rates sharply.