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50 Céntimos Castellserà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellserà (Municipality of Castellserà) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a symbolic vignette in which bales of alfalfa, a sheaf of wheat, a cogwheel, and a mallet are arranged together to represent the agricultural and industrial character of the local economy. The denomination is repeated in text at the centre of the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 cèntims. (Translation: 50 Centimos.) |
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Castellserà is a small municipality in the Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively licensed local authorities to print emergency small change. The national coinage had essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in rural areas — leaving municipalities to fill the gap themselves.
Grafos, by then operating under collective management following the anarcho-syndicalist takeover of Barcelona's printing industry in July 1936, handled a significant volume of these municipal issues. The collectivization of the press is why "Col·lectivitzada" appears in the printer's credit.