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50 Céntimos Figuerola d'Orcau
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Figuerola d'Orcau (Municipality of Figuerola d'Orcau) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress-printed note in brown ink on buff paper, with a rectangular border composed of a repeating pattern of circles and beige squares forming the perimeter frame. The central field carries the full text of the municipal promise to pay, with the denomination '0`50' and issuing authority set in bold type. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`50 Ajuntament de Figuerola d`Orcau La Dipositaria d`aquest Ajuntament pagarà al portador 50 CENTIMS MARÇ DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Figuerola d'Orcau The Depositary of this City Council will pay the bearer 50 Centimos March 1937) |
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Figuerola d'Orcau is a tiny municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and in 1937 it almost certainly had a population well under a few hundred. That a settlement of this scale was issuing its own paper money reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coin circulation across Republican Catalonia during the Civil War — the Spanish government's silver and copper coinage had vanished from daily trade almost entirely by mid-1936, hoarded or melted, and municipalities down to the village level stepped in to fill the gap.
Printed by Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega, a regional commercial press that produced emergency notes for multiple surrounding municipalities in the same period. The Turró catalogue records this as #1011.