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50 Céntimos Bagà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bagà (Municipality of Bagà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAGÀ reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CTS. acord del dia 6 de novembre de 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal (Translation: City Council of Bagà recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos agreement of November 6, 1937 Mandatory course throughout the municipality) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark olive-green on a cream ground and consists entirely of geometric guilloche work filling the entire field. A large central medallion, formed by a sunburst-style guilloche rosette, carries the bold numeral '50' above the denomination 'CÈNTIMS' in a contrasting light circular panel. The ornate border is composed of interlocking wave and scroll patterns with stylised corner brackets, and a small red serial number appears in the lower right area. |
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Bagà is a small medieval town in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by demand. The Turró catalogue documents over a thousand such local issues; Bagà's 50 céntimos is among the more obscure entries, reflecting a community with no particular commercial weight behind it.
Production was almost certainly local — a job printer, possibly a simple letterpress run. Surviving examples tend to show handling wear quickly given the card stock used across most of these Catalan municipal emissions.