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50 Céntimos Ciutadilla
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ciutadilla (Municipality of Ciutadilla) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#829 |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE CIUTADILLA CERTIFICAT DE PLATA 0`50 Cinquanta cèntims 0`50 d`ús forçós solament en aquesta vila Febrer, 1937 (Translation: City Council of Ciutadilla Silver Certificate 0.50 Fifty Centimos 0.50 of mandatory use only in this town February, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | ADVERTIMENT Aquesta moneda és transitòria el temps que duri l`escassetat de bescanvis. L`Ajuntament garanteix l`import. (Translation: Warning This currency is transitory as long as the shortage of exchange lasts. The City Council guarantees the amount.) |
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Ciutadilla is a village in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, with a population that barely cracked 200 in the 1930s. During the Civil War, the Republican zone experienced a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted — and the Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipalities to issue their own emergency paper currency to keep local commerce moving. Hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments did exactly this, producing notes of wildly varying quality and quantity.
For a village this small, surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon. The entire print run was almost certainly numbered in the hundreds.