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50 Céntimos Benavent de Segrià
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Benavent de Segrià (Municipality of Benavent de Segrià) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a light pink dotted underprint, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border. The issuer's name 'Ajuntament de Benavent de Segrià' is set in a serif typeface across the top, with the denomination '50 Cts.' at left and the large bold legend 'BON contra la caixa Municipal' occupying the central and right fields. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion beneath the role designations 'Alcalde,' 'Secretari,' and 'Finances,' accompanied by a circular violet official municipality stamp at centre. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress text on a light pink dotted underprint, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border. The place name 'BENAVENT DE SEGRIA' is printed in spaced capitals at top, beneath which the denomination 'CINQUANTA cèntims' appears in large bold type as the dominant element. Below, the issue date 'EMISSIO: Maig 1937.' is followed by the mandatory-circulation legend 'CURS OBLIGATORI PER AL CANVI' and the validity clause 'VALIT PER TOT EL POBLE' along the lower edge; a serial number is printed at left, and a faint pink heraldic underprint device is visible at centre-right. |
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Benavent de Segrià is a small municipality in the Lleida comarca of La Noguera, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during 1936–37, it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Spanish Civil War disrupted the supply of small-denomination coinage. The Republican government's inability to maintain coin circulation at the local level pushed the practical work of monetary supply down to the municipal tier — councils, trade unions, and cooperatives all printed their own.
Turró 406 is among the scarcer municipal issues from this district. Low original print runs and poor wartime paper stock mean surviving examples frequently show brittleness along the fold lines.