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50 Céntimos Fonts de Sacalm
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Fonts de Sacalm |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Fonts de Sacalm is centrally placed at the top, flanked by the issuer's name in large bold lettering across a banner reading AJUNTAMENT FONTS DE SACALM. The orange and blue bicolor design is framed by geometric side borders with cross-hatched guilloche panels. A dark circular vignette at lower left carries the denomination 50 cts., with series designation, serial number, issuance text, date, and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials below. |
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| Obverse lettering | EMISSIÓ 1937 AJUNTAMENT FONTS DE SACALM SERIE B DE CIRCULACIÓ LEGAL I OBLIGATÒRIA DINTRE DEL TERME. ACORD 6 MAIG 1937. FONTS de SACALM, 12 MAIG 1937. L'ALCALDE ORDENADOR EL DIPOSITARI L'INTERVENTOR 50 cts. (Translation: Issue 1937 City Council of Fonts de Sacalm Series B Of legal and mandatory circulation within the term. Agreement of May 6, 1937. Fonts de Sacalm, May 12, 1937. The Mayor/Orderer The Depositary The Controller 50 Centimos) |
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Fonts de Sacalm is a small spa town in the Garrotxa region of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities in 1937, its ajuntament issued fractional notes to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of small-change coinage during the Civil War. Republican government requisitioning of silver and copper for the war effort had effectively stripped local circulation of anything below a peseta.
Sabadell y Cía. S. en C. in Barcelona handled enormous volumes of these municipal emergency emissions, printing for dozens of issuing bodies simultaneously. The sheer number of clients means production quality and paper stock varied considerably even within a single series.