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50 Céntimos Fígols de Segre
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Fígols de Segre (Municipality of Fígols de Segre) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 92 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange and blue note enclosed within a thick rectangular border, with the face value '50 CTS' in circular vignettes at each corner. The municipal name 'AJUNTAMENT DE FÍGOLS DE SEGRE' appears across the top, with the large central denomination '50 VAL DE CÈNTIMS' in bold letterpress. The lower portion carries the authorizing text, two manuscript signatures below the titles 'El Secretari' and 'L'Alcalde', and an oval serial number panel inscribed 'Serie A' with printed number, impressed with an official circular municipality stamp. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the local coat of arms alongside a vignette of the 'Pont d'Espià' (Spy Bridge) spanning the river Segre, with the village of Fígols de Segre visible in the background. The face value appears in the corners, and the mandatory circulation legend is set within the lower panel. |
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Fígols de Segre is a village so small that its wartime emergency scrip is more an artifact of administrative stubbornness than any genuine monetary need. During the Spanish Civil War, the Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipalities to issue their own low-denomination paper — the *moneda de necessitat* — to address the acute shortage of small coinage that swept Republican-held territory from mid-1936 onward. Litografia Lafont i Miralles, a Barcelona commercial printer, produced notes for dozens of these Catalan municipalities, which accounts for the typographic consistency across an otherwise chaotic period.
Turró catalogs this as #1004, placing it within a well-documented but still genuinely scarce series — surviving examples from the smallest issuing municipalities are underrepresented in collections precisely because so few were printed to begin with.