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50 Céntimos Gavà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gavà (Municipality of Gavà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GAVÀ 50 céntims de curs obligatori a tot el terme municipal. 8 Abril 1937 (Translation: City Council of Gavà 50 centimos of mandatory legal tender throughout the entire municipal territory. 8 April 1937) |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain card stock without any printed design or text, bearing a large freehand handwritten signature in violet ink applied as the sole authorisation mark. |
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Gavà's 1937 emergency fractional issues belong to the dense ecosystem of Catalan municipal paper money that flooded local circulation after the Republic's small-change crisis of 1936–37. The central government's inability to supply sufficient coinage — partly due to silver hoarding and wartime disruption — forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own low-denomination notes under a framework loosely authorized by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Turró catalogues these Gavà pieces as legitimately scarce. The municipality is small, production runs were low, and wartime paper deteriorates fast.