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50 Céntimos Bosost
| Issuer | Bossòst, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain note with a simple rectangular border enclosing a light brown geometric underprint. The text block, set in letterpress, occupies the central field and constitutes the sole design element, with no vignette or ornamental guilloche work. |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly plain reverse printed on cream-white paper with a single oval municipality stamp applied in pale violet ink at centre, bearing the legend of the Ajuntament de Bossòst. The remainder of the surface is unprinted. |
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Bossòst is a tiny Pyrenean municipality in the Val d'Aran — Occitan-speaking, geographically isolated, and administratively peculiar even within Catalonia. During the Civil War, the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorizing local emergency currency gave hundreds of Catalan municipalities the legal cover to issue their own notes, and Bossòst was among the smallest to actually do so. Arts Gràfiques Ilerda in Lleida printed for dozens of these municipal issuers simultaneously, which explains the family resemblance shared across many Val d'Aran pieces from the period.
The Val d'Aran changed hands in the chaotic summer of 1936 before stabilizing under Republican control — these notes circulated in a community of well under a thousand inhabitants.