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50 Céntimos Berga
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Berga |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thin paper) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BERGA CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal per acord del dia 10 de Maig del 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Berga (Translation: Municipal Council of Berga Fifty Centimos Refundable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of May 10, 1937 Of mandatory course throughout the municipality of Berga) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL BERGA 0`50 PESSETA (Translation: City Council Berga 0.50 Peseta) |
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Berga is a small Catalan town in the Berguedà comarca, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced to produce its own fractional currency after the Republican government's chronic coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues in 1936, triggering an explosion of locally printed paper that varied wildly in quality and denominations.
The C.A.M. printer in Barcelona handled a number of these emergency municipal commissions, which gives this piece slightly more production consistency than notes run off on purely local presses. Thin paper was typical of wartime supply constraints, and surviving examples frequently show stress at the folds.