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50 Céntimos Bellcaire d'Urgell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bellcaire d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan four-bar coat of arms rendered within an ornate circular vignette occupies the left portion of the note, framed by a guilloche border running along all four edges. The denomination "VAL 50 CTS." appears in the upper left and upper right corners, while the central text block carries the issuing authority and the formal obligation text in Catalan italic script. Three manuscript signatures appear below the text block, attributed to El President, El Caixer, and L'Interventor, with a printed serial number at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL 50 CTS. Consell Municipal de Bellcaire d'Urgell La Depositaria del Consell reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 50 CÈNTIMS en virtut de l'acord del 4 de gener del 1937. (Translation: Voucher 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Bellcaire d'Urgell The Depositary of the Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos by virtue of the agreement of January 4, 1937.) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — *bitllets locals* — issued by Catalan municipal councils during the Civil War, when Republican authorities permitted local governments to print their own low-value scrip to address chronic small-change shortages. Bellcaire d'Urgell is a minor agricultural municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida province; its council almost certainly produced this note in very limited quantity, as demand in such a small population center would have been modest at best.
Imprenta Sol, the Lleida press responsible for printing, produced scrip for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, which occasionally creates attribution confusion when undated or unsigned sheets surface without their municipal stamps intact.