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50 Céntimos Guissona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Guissona (Municipality of Guissona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CÈNTIMS AJUNTAMENT DE GUISSONA VAL PER CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Emissió feta segons acord pres per l'Ajuntament en sessió del 2 d'Agost del 1937 GUISSONA, Agost del 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Guissona Valid for Fifty Centimos Issue made in accordance with an agreement reached by the City Council in session on August 2, 1937 Guissona, August 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse vignette presents two distinct local scenes within a blue guilloche border: a peasant plowing a field with two horses and a farmhouse in the background, accompanied by agricultural produce and tools, alongside the Renaissance-style monumental fountain of Guissona with a central column and four water spouts, symbolising the town's historic water supply. The denomination appears in numerals and text at upper and lower centre against the fine geometric underprint. |
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Guissona is a small market town in the Segarra comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after metallic coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply pushed this responsibility onto town councils that had no business being in the currency business — and the results were predictably uneven.
Martí, Marí y Cía. of Barcelona handled a significant volume of these emergency municipal issues across Catalonia, which gives this note a cleaner production quality than many comparable pieces from smaller or more improvised printers.