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50 Céntimos La Jonquera
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Jonquera |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a stone arch framing a landscape vignette with wetlands and rushes (genus Juncus), a reference to the etymological origin of the town's name, with the sun rising over the horizon. The arch is flanked by symmetrical floral designs, and the surrounding text panel carries the full municipal authorization legend in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | Concentric circular text bands surround a central oval cartouche, the entire composition set against a background of fine floral guilloche patterns. The oval frame and surrounding ornamental elements are rendered in a letterpress style typical of Catalan wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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La Jonquera sits directly on the French border at the Col du Perthus, which gave its wartime emergency currency an unusual practical urgency — the town was a major transit point for refugees and supplies moving between Republican Spain and France throughout the Civil War. Local fractional notes like this one were issued under the decree permitting Catalan municipalities to produce their own small-denomination paper to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation after 1936.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona cooperative printing house with anarcho-syndicalist ties, responsible for a significant number of the Catalan municipal emissions of this period. The Turró catalogue records only a handful of surviving examples for most La Jonquera issues.