Catalog
50 Céntimos Cadaqués
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Cadaqués |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Size | 77 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a wavy-line guilloche border in blue ink enclosing all text elements. The issuing authority CONSELL MUNICIPAL and town name CADAQUÉS appear in bold blue letterpress at upper left, with the denomination 50 CÉNTIMS printed in large red numerals and text at lower left. A serial number in red occupies the upper right, below which the manuscript titles Alcalde President and Dipositari appear above two handwritten red ink signatures, with the mandatory-currency legend at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Red ink oval municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Cadaqués applied to the reverse as a validation mark. |
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Cadaqués issued its own fractional currency in the summer of 1936 as the Spanish Republic's monetary supply seized up in the weeks following the military uprising. Small change effectively vanished from circulation as hoarding took hold, and hundreds of Catalan municipalities — particularly in the Alt Empordà — stepped in with locally printed emergency notes. Turró catalogues this series under #569.
Imprenta Trayter, a commercial print shop in Figueres roughly 20 kilometers inland, handled production for several surrounding towns during this period. The only security measure is an official municipal stamp applied after printing.