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50 Céntimos Bellaguarda
| Issuer | Bellaguarda, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL per 50 cèntims al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Bellaguarda, Abril del 1937 (Translation: Value for 50 Centimos with the sole purpose of facilitating change Bellaguarda, April 1937) |
| Reverse description | Printed in black ink on plain paper, the reverse is framed by a scalloped dotted border running the full perimeter. At the upper centre, the series designation appears in capital letters. Two ornamental corner devices, formed by linked ring-and-bar motifs, are placed symmetrically at the left and right, flanking a centrally printed serial number preceded by the abbreviation "No". |
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Bellaguarda is a small municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, and this 50 céntimos note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. The Franco blockade and hoarding of metallic coin created an acute small-change shortage from mid-1936 onward, forcing even tiny villages to print their own fractional paper. Imprenta Sugrañes in Tarragona handled a significant number of these municipal commissions, which accounts for the consistent print quality across several otherwise unrelated Catalan issuers.
Turró catalogues this as #354 — a relatively obscure entry even within a field of obscure issues.