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50 Céntimos Calldetenes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calldetenes |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on pink card stock, with the municipal seal of Calldetenes — incorporating a tree motif — serving as a central underprint in the background. The denomination and mandatory circulation notice are printed in bold type, alongside a warning against disruption of the note's circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS CURS OBLIGATORI AJUNTAMENT DE CALLDETENES L'intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament (Translation: 50 Centimos Mandatory course City Council of Calldetenes Attempted traffic disruption of this voucher will be severely sanctioned) |
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Calldetenes is a small municipality in Osona, Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly tiny councils, it issued its own fractional paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to produce emergency small change — metallic coin having vanished almost immediately into hoarding and melting. The Turró catalogue documents an enormous proliferation of these issues, many from towns with populations in the hundreds, and Calldetenes fits squarely in that category.
Thick card construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and relied on local printers with commercial stock. Survival rates for these minor Catalan issues vary wildly; the smaller the town, the smaller the original print run.