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50 Céntimos Golmés
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Golmés (Municipality of Golmés) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 52 × 35 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain reddish-brown letterpress text on a yellow background, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The municipal authority and denomination are stated in Catalan in bold lettering. The design is entirely typographic with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Golmés VAL PER 50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Golmés It`s worth 50 Centimos) |
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Golmés is a small agricultural village in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. This note belongs to the vast corpus of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency — paper issued by local authorities after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed under wartime hoarding and metal requisitions. By 1937, hundreds of Catalan municipalities were printing their own fractional notes simply to make change possible at the market or the cooperative.
Local production at this scale meant no professional printer, no engraver, often just a rubber stamp or a basic press. Survival rates vary wildly — some issues are extremely scarce precisely because production runs were tiny and the notes were soon superseded or declared void.