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50 Céntimos Bellver de Cerdanya
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bellver de Cerdanya |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a townscape derived from the municipal coat of arms of Bellver de Cerdanya, enclosed within a border of floral ornamentation. The issuing authority inscription runs along the upper margin in bold letterpress. The overall design is executed in a simple typographic and illustrative style typical of wartime Catalan emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | Upper portion carries the coat of arms of Catalonia above the municipal coat of arms of Bellver de Cerdanya, with a classical allegorical figure representing strength or victory occupying the lower field. The denomination and mandatory circulation text are set in letterpress across the face of the note. |
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Bellver de Cerdanya is a small Pyrenean town in the comarca of Baixa Cerdanya, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional paper currency when Republican-era coin shortages made small change functionally impossible to obtain. The Consell de la Generalitat had authorized local emergency issues in 1937, producing an extraordinary proliferation of hyper-local notes across the region — Turró catalogs well over a thousand distinct pieces from this period.
Printed at Imprenta Unió Obrera in La Seu d'Urgell, roughly 25 kilometers north, this reflects the practical geography of wartime logistics in the Pyrenees.