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50 Céntimos Camprodon
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Camprodon |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Camprodon, rendered in dark green intaglio-style print against a stippled brick-wall underprint. The denomination '50' appears in large bold numerals at lower left and lower right, with 'ctms.' below each. The issuing authority legend arches across the upper portion of the note, with 'L'ALCAIDE' and 'L'INTERVENTOR' captions flanking two manuscript signatures below the arms, and the printer's imprint 'GRAFOS, Col·lectivitzada' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 ctms. (Translation: 50 Centimos) |
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Camprodon is a small town in the Ripollès comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued emergency paper money when coinage vanished from circulation after 1936. The collectivized printing house Grafos — operating under worker control following the anarchist and socialist collectivizations that swept Barcelona's industries — produced a significant portion of these municipal issues, giving them a recognizable print quality that distinguishes them from the cruder locally-produced alternatives.
Turró 633 places this squarely within the documented Catalan municipal series. The collectivization of Grafos itself is the more interesting footnote here than the note's face value.