Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Castellnou de Montsech
| Issuer | Castellnou de Montsec, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | CASTELLNOU DE MONTSECH Maig 1937 Val 0`50 cts. Valable solament per aquest terme. (Translation: Castellnou de Montsech May 1937 Voucher 0.50 Centimos Valid only in this term.) |
| Reverse description | Completely plain reverse on cream-colored card stock, unprinted and bearing no text, vignette, or ornamentation, consistent with the austere production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Castellnou de Montsec is a small municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan villages during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorised local bodies to produce small-denomination notes to address the acute shortage of coin. Turró catalogued these issues systematically, but many remain genuinely rare — the print runs for villages this small were typically in the hundreds, not thousands, and wartime attrition did the rest.
The thick card stock was a practical response to the absence of proper banknote paper in provincial areas.