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50 Céntimos Hostoles
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Hostoles (Municipality of Hostoles) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a farmer carrying a hoe over his shoulder, set against a rural landscape with ears of wheat and a sickle in the foreground and a partial townscape with a bridge over the river Brugent in the background. The denomination '50 CTS.' appears at the corners within circular cartouches, with the issuer name and full authorizing legend arranged around the central scene. The note is printed in a single colour in a simple typographic and illustrative style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CTS. CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS HOSTOLES MONEDA PAPER DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI SERIE A. (Translation: 50 Centimos Fifty Centimos Hostoles Mandatory local legal tender paper money Series A.) |
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Hostoles is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed entirely. The Generalitat had authorized local authorities to fill the gap, producing a flood of small-denomination notes — cartrons, as they were commonly called — that varied wildly in quality, design ambition, and print run.
Turró catalogues over 1,400 Catalan municipal issues from this period. Hostoles sits at the quieter end of the spectrum in terms of survival numbers, and examples in any condition are infrequently encountered outside specialist Iberian collections.