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50 Céntimos Balsareny
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Balsareny |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Balsareny Castle, perched atop a 420-metre hill on the right bank of the Llobregat River, above the town of Balsareny. The issuer name and denomination are inscribed around the vignette in letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS (Segons acord del 16 de juliol del 1937) Reemborsable a la Caixa Municipal (Translation: 50 Centimos (According to agreement of July 16, 1937) Reimbursable to the Municipal Cash Office) |
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Balsareny is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued emergency paper money during 1937 as the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply outpaced by wartime demand. These municipal notes, collectively known as "moneda de paper local," were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya and printed at whatever local or regional facilities were available. Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for this vast and chaotic series.
Balsareny's issues are among the less commonly encountered in the series, reflecting the town's modest population rather than any particular scarcity event.