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50 Céntimos Calonge de la Costa Brava
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Calonge de la Costa Brava |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | A faint panoramic vignette of the town of Calonge is printed as an underprint across the centre of the note. The bold numeral "50" and abbreviation "cts." appear at upper left, with the mandatory local currency legend set to the upper right; a serial number prefixed by "No" is printed at centre, and the series designation "SÈRIE A" with the numeral "50" occupies the lower right. The printer's imprint appears in small type at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 cts. Moneda Paper de curs local obligatori SÈRIE A 50 Imprenta C. Barnés - Palamós (Translation: 50 Centimes. Paper money of mandatory local currency. Series A 50.) |
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Calonge de la Costa Brava was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local councils to print their own small-denomination notes as a stopgap, producing one of the most fragmented and locally specific currency episodes in twentieth-century European history. Imprenta C. Barnés in nearby Palamós handled several of these municipal commissions across the Baix Empordà region.
Turró 611 is among the scarcer small-town Catalan issues — Calonge's population at the time was under two thousand.