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50 Céntimos Borges del Camp
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Borges del Camp (Municipality of Les Borges del Camp) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pale violet underprint with a guilloche border framing the entire note. The denomination numeral '50' appears in a circular vignette at left, with 'Cts.' in a matching circular device at right. The municipal name 'BORGES DEL CAMP' is set in bold block lettering across the centre, above the reimbursement clause in italic script. Three handwritten signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Alcalde, the Interventor, and the Dipositari, each above a printed title. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BORGES DEL CAMP La Caixa Municipal reintegrarà al portador CINQUANTA Cts. El Sr. Interventor. L'Alcalde El Dipositari (Translation: City Council of Borges del Camp The Municipal Treasury will reimburse the bearer Fifty Centimos The Mr. Auditor. The Mayor The Depositary) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues produced across Republican Catalonia during the Civil War, this note was authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's 1936 decree permitting local councils to issue fractional currency to address the near-total disappearance of metal coin from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply stopped at the front. Les Borges del Camp is a small municipality in the Baix Camp comarca, and its issue was correspondingly modest in volume.
Turró catalogues these Catalan locals exhaustively; #497 places this among the lower-circulation rural issues, many of which survived in unused condition simply because the towns were too small to absorb them.