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50 Céntimos Cardona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cardona (Municipality of Cardona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress note with a bold large numeral '50' in a left-side panel framed by laurel branch vignettes, flanked by floral corner ornaments and a decorative leaf-scroll border running along the bottom. The central text panel carries the municipal bond text in cursive script over a faint thistle underprint, with three manuscript signatures below the titles ALCALDE, DIPOSITARI, and INTERVENTOR. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT de CARDONA' appears in a bold black banner across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT de CARDONA SERIE C BON de 50 CENTIMS Creat i garantit per acord Municipal del dia 5. d'Octubre de 1937. Reintegrable en la Caixa Municipal. Cardona 5. d'Octubre del 1937. ALCALDE DIPOSITARI INTERVENTOR CENTIMS SABADELLY Cia. S. en C. Claris 24, BARCELONA (Translation: CITY COUNCIL of CARDONA / Series C / Bond of 50 Centimos / Created and guaranteed by Municipal agreement of 5 October 1937. Redeemable at the Municipal Treasury. / Cardona, 5 October 1937. / Mayor / Treasurer / Controller) |
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Cardona's wartime municipal issues belong to a category of emergency fractional currency that proliferated across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when coin hoarding and metal shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own paper fraccions, most in tiny quantities and with no redemption infrastructure that survived the Nationalist advance of early 1939.
The printer, Sabadell y Cia. S. en C., operated from a Barcelona address and handled several of these local commissions. Turró's catalogue remains the primary reference for tracing which towns actually issued versus which merely authorized — Cardona's #677 is among the documented issues.