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50 Céntimos Empori
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Vila de Empori |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Double linear frame in red and dark blue encloses the face of the note, with a vignette of a general townscape view of Empori occupying the background. The text is arranged in several lines across the central field, identifying the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D`EMPORI VAL de transacció monetària intercanviable per valor de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Emissió 1937 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Empori Exchangeable monetary transaction voucher for Fifty Centimos Issue 1937 50 Centimos) |
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Empori is the Catalan name for the municipality of Empuriabrava — or more precisely here, for L'Escala, the coastal town adjacent to the ancient Greek colony of Emporion. During the Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own fractional currency under authority granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya, filling a vacuum left by the disappearance of small-denomination coinage hoarded from circulation after 1936.
Imprenta C. Barnés in Palamós produced notes for several towns along the Costa Brava, which accounts for a family resemblance across some of the local issues from this stretch of Girona province. Turró catalogues this emission at #928.