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50 Céntimos Begur
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Begur |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | At left, the denomination '50' is set within a cartouche engraved in letterpress style, below which 'CÈNTIMS' appears in bold capitals. The upper right vignette presents a sickle and bound ears of wheat against a horizontally lined sky scattered with six-pointed stars, rendered in a two-tone brown and yellow palette. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower centre alongside the role designations 'Conceller Finances', 'Secretari-Interventor', and 'L'Alcalde', with the issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BEGUR' in a bold banner at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CÈNTIMS Begur, Maig del 1937 Conceller Finances Secretari-Interventor L'Alcalde CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BEGUR (Translation: 50 Centimos / Begur, May 1937 / Finance Councillor / Secretary-Comptroller / The Mayor / Municipal Council of Begur) |
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Begur is a small coastal municipality in the Costa Brava, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 effectively authorized local councils to fill the acute shortage of small change caused by hoarding and the flight of metal coinage. The Consell Municipal series was a practical response to a genuine transactional breakdown — without fractional currency, local markets and wages simply could not function.
Gràfiques Darío Rahola in Girona handled production for several Empordà-area municipal issues during this period, giving neighboring towns' notes a family resemblance in print quality and paper stock. Turró catalogs this as #348.