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50 Céntimos Baix Montseny
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Baix Montseny |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL AJUNTAMENT DE BAIX MONTSENY 0`50 (Translation: Voucher City Council of Baix Montseny) |
| Reverse description | The face value numeral '0.50' is set within a large central oval guilloche medallion composed of concentric circular lathe-work patterns, flanked by two smaller circular guilloche rosettes. The serial number appears twice in the upper corners, and a two-line italic text legend runs along the lower portion of the note, with the printer's imprint below it at right. |
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Baix Montseny was not a municipality but a comarca-level grouping in the Vallès Oriental, and its wartime emergency scrip was printed locally by Gràfiques Unificades n.º 2 — one of the collectivized print shops operating under CNT-FAI control during the Civil War. The printer's own name embeds that political reality: "Unificades" signals the anarcho-syndicalist collectivization of the graphic trades that swept Catalonia after July 1936.
These small-denomination vales de necesidad filled a genuine gap — Republican silver and copper coinage had vanished almost immediately into hoarding, leaving village economies to improvise. Turró catalogues hundreds of such emissions, but the Baix Montseny issues are among the more obscure, produced for a limited geographic circulation and rarely exported beyond the immediate comarca.