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50 Céntimos Canet de Mar
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Canet de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Canet de Mar — a shield bearing a standing deer above a horizontal band with crossed olive branches — occupies the central position, flanked on either side by the split face value legend 'CINQUANTA CENTIMS' set within elongated cartouches with scrollwork borders. A serial number prefix letter and numerals appear at upper left, the date 'Abril 1937' at upper right, and a circular overprint stamp is visible at right. The mandatory circulation legend is printed along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Abril 1937 CINQUANTA CENTIMS De curs obligatori en el terme municipal de Canet de Mar (Translation: April 1937 Fifty Centimos Of mandatory course in the Municipal Term of Canet de Mar) |
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Canet de Mar is a small coastal town north of Barcelona, and like dozens of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its council issued fractional emergency notes to address the chronic shortage of small change that plagued the Republican zone throughout the Civil War. The Consell Municipal's authority to do so derived from a Generalitat decree permitting local bodies to fill the gap left by hoarded coin.
Indústries Madriguera was itself a collectivized printing operation — seized and run by its workers under the anarcho-syndicalist framework that restructured much of Barcelona's industry after July 1936. That a collectivized press produced official municipal scrip captures something genuinely strange about the Republican home front economy.