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50 Céntimos Gramanet del Besòs
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gramenet del Besòs (Municipality of Gramenet del Besòs) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a vignette of the Catalan coat of arms enclosed within a wreath of olive branches, with a guilloche-printed numeral '50 CENTIMS' medallion below. The issuer's name appears in a bold typeset banner across the top within a decorative frame, and the denomination 'CINQUANTA CENTIMS' is set in large letterpress text to the right. Two signature lines for L'Alcalde and El Dipositari appear in the lower centre, with a legal obligation clause along the bottom margin dated 30 Juliol 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GRAMANET DEL BESOS CINQUANTA CENTIMS REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL 50 CENTIMS De curs obligatori en el terme, per acord municipal de 30 Juliol 1937 (Translation: City Council of Gramanet del Besos Fifty Centims Refundable at the Municipal Treasury 50 Centims Of obligatory currency within the municipality, by municipal agreement of 30 July 1937) |
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Gramenet del Besòs — today absorbed into Santa Coloma de Gramenet — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936. These locally issued notes, collectively catalogued under the broader "Guerra Civil" series, were legal only within the issuing municipality's limits, which for an industrial suburb of Barcelona meant a very narrow circulation zone.
Indústries Gràfiques Piulats was a Barcelona commercial printer, not a specialist security firm — wartime necessity, not choice.