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50 Céntimos El Cirerer del Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Cirerer del Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT D`EL CIRERER DEL LLOBREGAT PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR 50 CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal segons acord del dia 24 de juliol del 1937 DE CURS LEGAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: City Council of El Cirerer del Llobregat Will pay the bearer 50 Centimos Refundable to the Municipal Treasury according to the agreement of July 24, 1937 Of mandatory legal course) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on a circular cartouche bearing the face value, flanked by two cornucopias supported by putti figures, one overflowing with coins and the other with fruit, rendered in a classical allegorical vignette style. The issuing authority's name and denomination are set in letterpress above and below the central device. The composition follows the decorative conventions common to Spanish municipal emergency currency of the 1936–1939 period. |
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El Cirerer del Llobregat was one of dozens of Catalan municipalities that issued their own small-denomination paper money during the Civil War after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. These local emergency issues — called *moneda de necessitat* — filled a genuine gap, since the Republican government could not supply enough coin to keep village commerce moving. The C.A.M. in Barcelona printed for numerous councils simultaneously, which is why the typography on these small municipals often feels more polished than the improvised circumstances might suggest.
Turró catalogues this issue at #824, placing it among the better-documented Baix Llobregat emissions.