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50 Céntimos La Sentiu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de La Sentiu de Sió |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Pale yellow ground with a dotted corner-bracket border in dark green at each corner. The face value "VAL 50 CENTIMS" is printed in bold teal letterpress at the top, with the serial number field "Núm." and handwritten number at centre right. An oval purple municipal rubber stamp appears to the left, and the mandatory circulation clause is set in teal at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | VAL 50 CENTIMS Núm. Curs obligatori per a canvi. (Translation: Voucher 50 Centimos No. Mandatory currency for change.) |
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La Sentiu de Sió is a small municipality in the Noguera comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of metallic coin. Republican militias and collectivized industries were absorbing copper and silver faster than they could be replaced in local commerce. The Ajuntament filled the gap with locally authorized paper.
Printed by Imprenta Unió Obrera in Balaguer — the comarca's printing center — this issue shares a production origin with several neighboring municipal notes from the same period. The Turró catalog documents over 2,000 such Catalan emergency issues; that this one earned a distinct reference number speaks to how granular that documentation is, not to any particular rarity on its own terms.