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50 Céntimos Beget
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Beget |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Anglada, Camprodon, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text on a light green letttered underprint within a geometric border frame, printed in dark green and light brown. The central field carries the full obligation text in Catalan, with the issuing authority, denomination in words, date of issue, and mandatory circulation clause arranged in justified letterpress blocks. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BEGET PAPER MONEDA DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council of Beget Paper-money of mandatory local course 50 Centimos) |
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Beget is one of the smallest villages in the Garrotxa region of Catalonia — at the time of issue its population numbered in the dozens. That a settlement this size was issuing its own paper currency at all reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held Spain in 1937, a shortage so severe that hundreds of Catalan municipalities, many of them tiny, were authorized under the Generalitat's emergency framework to print their own local scrip. These notes were theoretically valid only within the issuing municipality, which in Beget's case meant a handful of streets.
Imprenta Anglada in nearby Camprodon handled the printing for several surrounding villages, which accounts for the typographic consistency visible across multiple Turró-catalogued pieces from the area.