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50 Céntimos Bages d'en Selves
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bages d'en Selves |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a guilloche-patterned border enclosing the municipal coat of arms at left — a quartered shield bearing a tower on a lozenge over vertical stripes, flanked by laurel branches, with radiating lines beneath. The denomination numeral '50' appears in a cartouche at upper left, while a circular blank stamp panel occupies the upper right. Three manuscript signatures below their respective title designations — El Secretari, El Conseller de Finances, and El President — run across the lower centre of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse with a scalloped central vignette of fine crosshatch guilloche work surrounding a bold circular medallion bearing the numeral '50' over 'CÈNTIMS'. The municipal coat of arms — a quartered shield with vertical stripes and a tower on a lozenge — is placed at lower right. A serial number in a plain rectangular frame appears at lower left. The issuer's name in large block capitals runs across the top of the note. |
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Bages de Roda — the municipality's name at the time, since renamed — was one of hundreds of Catalan towns that printed their own small-denomination paper during the Civil War after Republican authorities authorized local emergency currency in 1936. The Generalitat's decision to permit this was driven by a near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation, hoarded or melted as the war destabilized supply chains across the region.
Turró 265 documents this issue but the print run figures are not recorded. Most surviving Catalan local wartime notes exist in tiny quantities — many municipalities printed only a few hundred pieces, and post-war Francoist suppression of anything associated with Republican Catalonia accelerated their destruction.