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50 Céntimos Balaguer
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Balaguer (Municipality of Balaguer) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Balaguer BON contra la Caixa Municipal 50 CTS. Curs obligatori per a canvi (Translation: City Council of Balaguer Bond against the Municipal Fund 50 Centimos Mandatory course for change) |
| Reverse description | Central heraldic vignette of the Balaguer municipal coat of arms — composed of crossed chequered banners over a vertically striped field — enclosed within an oval guilloche border with scrolling acanthus ornamental motifs. Two circular medallions flanking the central arms each bear the denomination numeral, with the serial number printed in red at the top left and top right corners. |
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Balaguer is a small city in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small coinage — silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation through hoarding and wartime disruption. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local emergency issues, which is why so many Catalan ajuntaments produced notes this period.
Printed locally by Imprenta Unió Obrera — the Workers' Union Press — the production circumstances are themselves part of the record. Many comparable municipal issues show uneven inking and rough cuts from hand-fed presses operating under wartime constraints.