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50 Céntimos Gósol
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gósol (Municipality of Gósol) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Jaume Molins, Berga, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the obverse carries the Catalan coat of arms above a panoramic vignette of the town of Gósol set against the distinctive silhouette of Mount Pedraforca. The municipal obligation text is arranged in a linear letterpress format encircling the central design, attesting to the authority of the Ajuntament de Gósol and the July 1937 issue date. The composition is spare and typographic, characteristic of the Catalan Civil War emergency currency series. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Gósol reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CTS. Juliol 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Gósol (Translation: City Council of Gósol recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos July 1937 Mandatory course throughout the municipality of Gósol) |
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Gósol is a small mountain village in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, better known to art historians as the place where Picasso spent the summer of 1906 — but this note has nothing to do with that. It exists because the Spanish Civil War severed normal currency supply chains, forcing hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own emergency fractional notes. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized this wave of local issues in 1937, which is why so many small-town notes from that year share the same regional printer network.
Imprenta Jaume Molins in nearby Berga handled several municipal commissions from the surrounding comarca. Turró catalogues this as #1149, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan municipal series.