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50 Céntimos Bosost
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bosost (Municipality of Bossòst) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain rectangular note with a green checkerboard-pattern underprint of alternating light squares forming the background field, enclosed within a thin brown border with decorative corner flourishes. The issuer name 'Ajuntament de Bosost' appears in large brown letterpress type at the top, followed by a mandatory circulation text in Catalan and the bold denomination 'val 50 cèntims' at centre. Below the date line appear two handwritten facsimile signatures above a serial number printed in black, with the printer's imprint 'A. G. ILERDA – LLEIDA' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Bosost Aquest bitllet és de circulació obligatòria dintre la població, està garantitzat per l'Ajuntament i val 50 cèntims Bosost, juliol del 1937 El Secretari, L'Alcalde, (Translation: City Council of Bosost This banknote is mandatory for circulation within the town, is guaranteed by the City Council and its value is 50 Céntims Bosost, July 1937 The Secretary, The Mayor,) |
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Bosost is a tiny village in the Val d'Aran, the Pyrenean valley whose Occitan-speaking population found itself administratively part of Republican Catalonia during the Civil War. Like hundreds of other Catalan and Aragonese municipalities in 1936–37, Bosost issued its own small-change notes — moneda local — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage hoarded or melted down after the July 1936 uprising.
Arts Gràfiques Ilerda in Lleida printed for numerous ayuntamientos simultaneously, which accounts for the family resemblance across many Turró-catalogued municipals from this region. The Val d'Aran's geographic isolation — accessible mainly through mountain passes — made normal coin resupply particularly impractical, giving these notes a genuine functional purpose rather than purely ceremonial issue.