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50 Céntimos Castelltersol
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Castellterçol (Municipality of Castellterçol) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Green and blue letterpress vignette with a central cogwheel medallion set within an oval cartouche, flanked symmetrically by radiating stalks of wheat, floral sprigs, and fruit clusters symbolising agriculture and industry. An ornate scrollwork border frames the entire design, with the denomination numeral '50 CTS' at lower left and right. Three manuscript signature lines are positioned along the lower margin beneath the titles of the municipal officials. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CASTELLTERSOL 50 CTS L'INTERVENTOR L'ALCALDE EL DEPOSITARI (Translation: City Council of Castelltersol 50 Centimos The Auditor The Mayor The Depositary) |
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Castellterçol is a small municipality in the Moianès comarca of Catalonia, and its 1937 emergency fractional notes belong to the enormous wave of locally-issued paper produced during the Spanish Civil War when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own small-denomination scrip under broadly similar circumstances, many through Barcelona's collectivized print shops.
Grafos, operating as a collectivized enterprise under CNT-FAI worker control by this point, handled an unusually large share of this municipal scrip work across the region.