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50 Céntimos Bellvei
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bellvei (Municipality of Bellvei) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament de Bellvei PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR Cinquanta Cèntims Juny del 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Bellvei Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos June 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQUANTA Cèntims (Translation: Fifty Centimos) |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation left local councils scrambling. Bellvei — a small agricultural village in the Baix Penedès comarca — resolved the shortage by commissioning its own paper céntimos from a commercial printer in the nearby town of El Vendrell rather than the capital.
Turró's catalog documents the full chaotic range of these local emissions; #388 places Bellvei among the smaller, less prolific issuers.