Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Just Desvern
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Just Desvern |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 50 L'AJUNTAMENT DE JUST DESVERN RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE CINQUANTA CTS. EN VIRTUT D'ACORD MUNICIPAL JUST DESVERN, MAIG 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Just Desvern recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos by virtue of municipal agreement. Just Desvern, May 1937) |
| Reverse description | A vignette of the chimney stack of the Samson cement factory dominates the central field, flanked by fruit trees in a composition that evokes the town's dual industrial and agricultural character. The denomination and mandatory circulation legend are printed below the vignette in Catalan. The overall design is executed in a simple letterpress style typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Just Desvern is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, southwest of Barcelona. Like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of metallic coin — silver and copper had largely vanished from circulation by mid-conflict, hoarded or melted down. These municipally issued notes, collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets de necessitat* phenomenon, were legal only within the issuing municipality and had no validity elsewhere.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of this emergency local currency work for smaller Catalan municipalities, which accounts for a degree of typographic similarity across issues from different towns in the series.