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50 Céntimos Bagà
| Issuer | Bagà, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design printed in blue ink on a green underprint, with a geometric border framing the entire face. The denomination and municipal authority are stated in Catalan within the central text block, surrounded by simple decorative guilloche-style corner ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT DE BAGA Val 50 cèntims Baga Maig 1937 (Translation: City Council of Baga Voucher 50 Centimos Baga, May 1937) |
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Bagà is a small Berguedà municipality in the Catalan pre-Pyrenees, and like hundreds of similar communities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local emissions — known collectively as *moneda de guerra* or *paper moneda* — were authorized under a decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya that permitted municipalities to print their own small-denomination notes to keep local commerce moving.
Imprenta Jaume Molins in Berga handled printing for several Berguedà municipalities during this period, which accounts for a degree of typographic consistency across notes that were nominally distinct local issues. Bagà fell to Nationalist forces in early 1938, after which these notes became instantly worthless.