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50 Céntimos Centelles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Centelles (Municipality of Centelles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a letterpress-printed landscape view in green tones of the Font Calenta spring on the outskirts of Centelles, framed by two tall trees flanking a garden path leading to a fountain structure. Large denomination numerals '50' appear at both the left and right margins, with the issuer inscription running along the upper border and the value in words set across the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Centelles is positioned at the upper left, rendered in green letterpress and representing the ascent of the Serrat hill beneath a stormy sky. The remaining face is laid out in a plain typographic arrangement carrying the denomination, issuer details, and the date of issue of July 1937. |
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One of thousands of emergency paper issues (known as moneda local or paper moneda) that flooded Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising paralyzed the Spanish banking system and created an acute shortage of small change. The Republican government's inability to supply adequate coinage to rural municipalities forced town councils across the region to print their own fractional notes — legally dubious, practically essential.
Imprenta Ausetana in Vic was a workhorse printer for several nearby Osona comarca councils during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across multiple municipal issues from the area. Centelles itself was a small agricultural town with no particular issuing history before the war.
Turró catalogs this as #805.