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50 Céntimos Bellpuig d'Urgell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Bellpuig d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire face, framed by a bold dashed border. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Bellpuig d'Urgell is rendered as a detailed vignette enclosed within a shield, showing a fortified tower, trees, and a townscape. The denomination '50 ctms.' appears in large bold numerals at lower left and lower right, with the issuing authority legend across the top and two manuscript signature lines below the arms. |
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| Reverse description | View of the arcaded street known as Carrer del Pou, a characteristic porticoed thoroughfare of Bellpuig d'Urgell, with the Casa de la Vila (Town Hall) visible in the background. The denomination is printed in the lower portion of the design. |
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Bellpuig d'Urgell is a small town in the Urgell comarca of Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its local council was forced into emergency paper money after the hoarding and melting of metallic coin left daily commerce unworkable. The Republican government tolerated — and eventually tried to regulate — this flood of local scrip, but municipal councils largely operated on their own initiative. Grafos, by then collectivized under anarcho-syndicalist control, handled an enormous volume of this municipal work out of Barcelona.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such Catalan municipal issues from the Civil War years. The sheer quantity makes condition and provenance the only meaningful differentiators among common types.