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50 Céntimos Gelida
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gelida (Municipality of Gelida) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GELIDA ES RECONEIX AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE 50 CTS VALID EXCUSIVAMENT PER A AQUEST TERME MUNICIPAL GELIDA 12 MARÇ 1937 (Translation: City Council of Gelida. The bearer is recognized the amount of 50 Centimos. Valid exclusively for this municipal term. Gelida, 12 March 1937) |
| Reverse description | At left, a standing male worker figure in a classical pose, rendered in black line-work vignette, faces right with one hand raised to his chest. A green banner scroll across the upper portion carries the issuer's name. Industrial factory chimneys and structures appear in the background at lower right, evoking the Republican-era labour iconography common to Spanish Civil War emergency issues. The denomination '50 CTS' is printed in a green circular panel at the lower right. |
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One of thousands of locally issued emergency notes produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, this Gelida 50 céntimos exists because the central government's collapse in small-denomination coinage supply forced municipalities — some with populations in the hundreds — to print their own fractional currency. The Ajuntament de Gelida, a small Penedès wine-producing town, had no professional printing infrastructure; these notes were almost certainly produced on whatever commercial press was locally available.
Turró's catalog documents over 1,700 distinct Catalan municipal issues from 1936–1937. Gelida's output was minimal, and surviving examples in any condition are scarce simply due to low print runs, not selective preservation.