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50 Céntimos Castellfollit de la Roca
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Castellfollit de la Roca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 99 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream field enclosed by a thin double-rule border, with the issuing authority's name in bold letterpress at the upper left and the series designation 'SÈRIE A' at the upper right. The denomination 'CINQUANTA CENTIMS' is set in large bold capitals at the centre, above the place-and-date line. Four manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, allocated to the roles of Per la C.M., El Conseller de Finances, L'Interventor, and El Tresorer, printed against a background of fine vertical line underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 cts. (Translation: 50 Centimes) |
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Castellfollit de la Roca is a Garrotxa village of roughly a thousand inhabitants perched on a basalt cliff — an unlikely seat of monetary authority under any circumstances. During the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held Catalonia forced hundreds of municipalities, however small, to print their own emergency paper. This note is one of those stop-gap instruments, produced at the Barnés press in Palamós rather than locally, as the town had no printing infrastructure of its own.
Turró catalogues this as #724, placing it within the vast body of Catalan municipal emissions of 1937. The series is well-documented but individual surviving examples vary considerably in condition, as most saw hard local use before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.