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50 Céntimos Ciutadilla
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Ciutadilla |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain unprinted ground with all text applied by letterpress. The issuer name appears underlined with a double rule across the upper portion, with the denomination in centimos and guarantee clause arranged in the central field. A handwritten serial number and the date June 1937 complete the face of this austere wartime emergency issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Ciutadilla cts. 50 cts. ESTÁ GARANTIT ES SEU IMPORT Nº (serial number) JUNY 1937. (Translation: City Council of Ciutadilla 50 Centimos Its amount is guaranteed Nº (serial number) June 1937.) |
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Ciutadilla is a small municipality in the comarca of Urgell, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That such a tiny village was issuing its own emergency paper fractional currency in 1937 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation during the Spanish Civil War — a problem so acute that hundreds of Catalan municipalities, including many with almost no administrative infrastructure, printed their own scrip under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Turró 832 is among the scarcer municipal emissions simply due to the limited quantities any village of this size would have printed and the narrow local circulation that followed.