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50 Céntimos Juià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Juià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Confederal, Girona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE JUIÀ PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE 50 cèntims AQUEST BITLLET es de CURS OBLIGATORI A TOT el TERME (Translation: The Municipal Council of Juià will pay the bearer the amount of 50 centimos. This note is legal tender throughout the municipality.) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette within a ruled frame portrays a peasant ploughing a field with a two-horse-drawn plough, rendered in a simple typographic-style print. The denomination and resolution text are arranged above and below the vignette in letterpress. |
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Juià is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Gironès, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village of this scale issued its own paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain in 1936–37 forced hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities to print their own emergency fractional notes, a phenomenon so widespread that specialist collectors now track them by the thousands.
The Imprenta Confederal in Girona was the CNT-affiliated press responsible for a significant share of these local emissions across the province, which means this note was produced under anarcho-syndicalist administration during the height of the revolutionary period.