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50 Céntimos La Bisbal del Penedès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Bisbal del Penedès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de La Bisbal del Penedès PAGARA AL PORTADOR CINQUANTA Cèntims MAIG DEL 1937 (Translation: The City Council of La Bisbal del Penedès Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos May 1937) |
| Reverse description | Typographically printed in red on a plain ground, with the bold block numeral '50' at centre flanked on either side by large decorative rosette underprints composed of dot-matrix geometric patterns. The denomination legend 'CENTIMS' is set below the numeral, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. BARNADAS - VENDRELL' appears in small text at the lower margin. A circular violet control stamp is applied to the right of centre. |
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La Bisbal del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republic's copper and silver coinage vanished from circulation in 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency issues, but standardization was loose — each ajuntament arranged its own printing, which is why this note went to Barnadas in nearby El Vendrell rather than a Barcelona house.
Turró catalogues over a thousand of these Catalan municipal issues; 453 is deep in that sequence, a measure of how thoroughly the region atomized its currency supply under wartime conditions.