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50 Céntimos Domenys del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Domenys del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on ochre paper with an all-over geometric underprint composed of repeating rosette and lozenge motifs forming a decorative border and background field. The municipal authority and place name appear in bold display type across the upper portion, above the denomination written out in large script lettering at centre; a hand-stamped serial number and the issue date are placed in the lower register. The printer's imprint appears at the very foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no text, vignette, or underprint of any kind. |
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Domenys del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar townships during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 when the Republic's coin supply effectively collapsed. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local governments to fill the gap, producing a proliferation of emergency paper — over a thousand different municipal issues across the region.
The printer, Arts Gràfiques Barnadas of El Vendrell, handled several local issues in the Penedès area during this period. Proximity mattered; municipal councils couldn't easily commission work from Barcelona during wartime disruption.