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50 Céntimos Bellmunt d'Urgell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bellmunt d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL CINQUANTA CENTIMS Sèrie A Núm. 486 Consell Municipal de Bellmunt d'Urgell La Dipositaria del Consell reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 50 CENTIMS en virtut de l'acord del 12 de febrer del 1937. El Dipositari, VAL CINQUANTA CENTIMS Imp. Unió Obrera - Balaguer (Translation: It is worth Fifty Centims / Municipal Council of Bellmunt d'Urgell / The Depository of the Council recognizes in favour of the bearer the amount of 50 Centims by virtue of the agreement of 12 February 1937. / The Depositary,) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream paper reverse, consistent with the simple letterpress production typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issued by small Catalan municipalities to alleviate the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage in circulation during 1936–1939. |
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Bellmunt d'Urgell is a tiny municipality in the Lleida province — a village, really — and its decision to issue emergency paper money in 1937 reflects how completely the Spanish Civil War disrupted the national coin supply. Republican Spain saw hundreds of these municipal issues, known collectively as moneda local or paper de guerra, as copper and silver coins were hoarded or melted. The Consell Municipal had no bank behind it, only local authority and urgent necessity.
Printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in nearby Balaguer, the worker-run press that produced emergency scrip for several small Urgell towns during the same period.