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50 Céntimos Esterri d'Àneu
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Esterri d'Àneu |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | VAL 50 CTS. Consell Municipal d'Esterri d'Aneu La Depositaria del Consell reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de 50 CÈNTIMS en virtut de l'acord del 23 de març del 1937. (Translation: Voucher 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Esterri d'Aneu The Depositary of the Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos by virtue of the agreement dated March 23, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two sections by a dotted ornamental rule running vertically. The left panel provides a blank circular space reserved for application of the municipal seal, while the right panel carries the text legend. The design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with locally produced Civil War-era emergency issues. |
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Esterri d'Àneu is a small village in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of the Pyrenees, and in 1937 it had no business issuing paper currency — except that hundreds of similarly sized municipalities across Republican Catalonia were doing exactly the same thing. The Generalitat's chronic shortage of small-change coinage during the Civil War pushed local councils into printing their own fractional notes, a phenomenon documented across nearly every comarca. Turró catalogued close to a thousand distinct local emissions from this period, and this 50 céntimos piece from Esterri is among the more geographically remote.
Imprenta Sol in Lleida handled production for several of these Pallars-area municipals, which gives many of them a recognizable typographic similarity despite different issuing authorities.