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50 Céntimos Gualba
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Gualba (Municipality of Gualba) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette portrays a pastoral landscape with a shepherd tending a flock of sheep against a backdrop of a waterfall on the Gualba River on the outskirts of the town, rendered in letterpress. The denomination and municipal authority inscriptions are arranged around the vignette, with the note value stated both numerically and in words. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GUALBA 50 cts. Val per cinquanta cèntims (Translation: City Council of Gualba 50 Centimos Valid for Fifty Centimos) |
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Gualba is a village in the Vallès Oriental comarca with a population that barely crested 500 during the Civil War years. That a municipality this small issued its own paper currency speaks directly to the crisis of small change that paralyzed Republican Catalonia from 1936 onward — silver and copper had effectively vanished from everyday transactions, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of local councils to print their own emergency fractional notes under a framework loosely sanctioned by the Generalitat.
El Secretariat Català printed for dozens of these tiny municipal issuers out of Barcelona, producing workmanlike but often charmingly idiosyncratic results. Turró catalogues fewer than a handful of Gualba issues, making survival in any grade genuinely uncommon.