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50 Céntimos La Palma de Cervelló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Palma de Cervelló |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA PALMA DE CERVELLO CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal segons acord del dia 9 de Setembre del 1937 DE CURS LEGAL OBLIGATORI DINTRE DEL TERME (Translation: City Council of La Palma de Cervelló Fifty Centimos Refundable to the Municipal Treasury according to the agreement of September 9, 1937 Of mandatory legal tender within the municipal term) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 AJUNTAMENT LA PALMA DE CERVELLO (Translation: City Council La Palma de Cervelló) |
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La Palma de Cervelló is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento stepped in to fill a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage after metallic currency disappeared from circulation almost entirely by mid-1937. Imprenta Nieto in Barcelona handled production for numerous such local emergency issues, which makes attribution relatively straightforward when the printer's name appears — as it does here.
Turró catalogues this as #1772, one of several denominations from the same series. These hyper-local fractional notes were legal only within their issuing municipality and were recalled — with uneven success — after the Republican government attempted to centralize emergency currency later that year.