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50 Céntimos Baix Montseny
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Baix Montseny |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Left vignette consists of the municipal coat of arms of Baix Montseny within an oval cartouche, surmounted by a crenellated tower and flanked by laurel branches tied with a ribbon at the base, all printed in dark brown on a pale orange ground. The shield is quartered with the four bars of Catalonia, a floral rosette, a bell, and a roundel, with the municipal name running vertically along the left border. The right half of the note carries the authorising text and denomination in bold letterpress typography above three manuscript signatures, with a light guilloche underprint across the orange field. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BAIX MONTSENY Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CENTIMS Acord adoptat en sessió del 17 de Novembre del 1937 L'Alcalde El Conceller de Finances El Dipositari (Translation: City Council of Baix Montseny Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimes Agreement adopted in session on 17 November 1937 The Mayor The Councillor of Finance The Depositary) |
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Baix Montseny is a small comarca municipality northeast of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency currency when Republican Spain's small-change crisis became acute. The central government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply — partly due to hoarding, partly due to wartime metal demands — forced local councils to improvise. These municipal notes, collectively known as "moneda local," were legally sanctioned under a June 1937 decree but already circulating well before official authorization arrived.
Tipografia El Secretariat Català was a Barcelona press with Catalanist affiliations, handling print work for numerous municipal issues across the region during this period.