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50 Céntims Graner de Bages
| Issuer | La Caixa Rural de Graner de Bages |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#– |
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| Obverse lettering | LA CAIXA RURAL DE GRANER DE BAGES PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: The Rural Savings Bank of Graner de Bages will pay the bearer 50 Centims) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress text on a ground of green vertical dotted lines, enclosed within a geometric guilloche border. The central vignette presents an allegorical female figure of a peasant woman in a crop field, flanked by cogwheels and a sun containing the four-barred emblem of Catalonia, evoking the agrarian and cooperative identity of the issuer. |
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La Caixa Rural de Graner de Bages was one of dozens of small Catalan rural cooperatives and municipal bodies that began issuing their own paper fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent in the chaotic early months of the Civil War. These hyper-local emissions were never formally sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which ran its own parallel emergency currency program, but they were tolerated out of necessity. A village-level rural savings bank printing 50 céntims scrip is about as granular as Spanish Civil War emergency currency gets.
The Turró catalogue gap suggests this piece was either unknown to the compiler or surfaced after publication — neither scenario is unusual for the smaller Catalan emissions, many of which survived in only a handful of copies.