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50 Céntimos Calonge de la Costa Brava
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Calonge de la Costa Brava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a geometric underprint of fine parallel lines and floral ornaments forming the background field. Letterpress text in black states the municipal guarantee of value, framed within a ruled perimeter border. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold typeface at center, with the issue date of 6 October 1937 appearing in the body of the obligation text. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress text on a light ground, with a panoramic vignette of the town of Calonge serving as a tonal background scene. The mandatory local currency declaration is set in clear uppercase lettering across the face. The denomination numeral '50' and abbreviated unit appear as the principal typographic elements. |
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Calonge de la Costa Brava was a small Catalan municipality that, like hundreds of others during the Spanish Civil War, issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coins collapsed almost entirely after 1936. The Ajuntament authorized these notes under the broad decree permitting local governments to fill the void — which they did with wildly varying degrees of organization and quality. Imprenta C. Barnés in nearby Palamós handled production, keeping the whole operation hyperlocal even by the standards of the series.
Turró catalogues over a thousand such municipal emissions; number 613 places this squarely in the dense mid-Catalan grouping.