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50 Céntimos Bellaguarda
| Issuer | Ajuntament Constitucional de Bellaguarda |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Sugrañes, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with an elaborate guilloche border enclosing the entire face. A central oval vignette at the top contains a figural group of two standing persons. The face value "CINQUANTA CTS." appears twice in large type flanking the centre, with the issuing authority name above and the issue date below. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion above the serial number, attributed to the Secretary-Intervener, the Mayor, and the Depositary. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL DE BELLAGUARDA CINQUANTA CTS. Bellaguarda, 3 de desembre del 1937 (Translation: Constitutional City Council of Bellaguarda Fifty Centimos Bellaguarda, December 3, 1937) |
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Bellaguarda is a small municipality in the comarca of Les Garrigues, Lleida. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage as metal was diverted to the war effort and hoarding accelerated. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities responded by issuing their own paper fractional currency — these local emergency emissions are collectively catalogued as "moneda de necessitat." Bellaguarda's series is among the more obscure, reflecting a village issuer with extremely limited distribution and correspondingly low survival rates.
Imprenta Sugrañes of Tarragona printed for numerous small Catalan municipalities during this period, producing runs of modest quantity on whatever paper stock was available.