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50 Céntimos Girona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Girona (Municipality of Girona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 100 × 63 mm |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of the interior of the Arab Baths (Banys Àrabs) of Girona occupies the left portion of the note, with a secondary vignette of a school building with a mother and child at right. Denomination and mandatory circulation inscriptions are arranged around the design elements. |
| Reverse lettering | Pts. 0`50 AJUNTAMENT DE GIRONA Bitllet de curs local obligatori Pagable a Caixa de Tresoreria (Translation: Pesetas 0.50 City Council of Girona Mandatory local currency banknote Payable at the Treasury Office) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to supply adequate fractional coinage left local councils scrambling to fill the gap themselves. Girona's municipal issues of 1937 fall squarely within that wave — locally authorized, locally printed, and intended for purely local circulation.
Turró catalogues these obsidionals extensively; #1122 places this 50 céntimos within a well-documented Girona series, though surviving examples vary considerably in condition due to the rough handling typical of low-value everyday scrip.