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50 Céntimos La Seu d'Urgell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Seu d'Urgell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1938 |
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| Reverse description | A pastoral Pyrenean landscape vignette occupies the central field, with the snow-capped Serra del Cadí ridge visible in the background. In the foreground, a standing male figure holds a sheaf of wheat ears in one hand and a sickle in the other, rendered in a regionalist illustrative style. Redemption notice and denomination appear in Catalan within the surrounding text border. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA SEU D`URGELL 50 CTS. AQUEST BITLLET HAURA DE PRESENTAR-SE AL REEMBORSSAMENT ABANS DEL 31 DESEMBRE DEL 1938 (Translation: City Council of La Seu D`Urgell 50 Centimos This banknote must be presented for reimbursement before December 31, 1938) |
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La Seu d'Urgell sits in a geographically anomalous position — it is one of two co-princes of Andorra, a role held jointly with the French head of state, which made its municipal government's decision to issue emergency paper money during the Civil War an act carrying unusual symbolic weight. These local wartime emissions, known as "moneda de paper" or simply vals, proliferated across Catalonia from 1936 onward as Republican-controlled municipalities scrambled to replace coinage that had been hoarded or requisitioned.
Turró catalogues this series carefully; the 50 Céntimos is among the more commonly encountered values from this issuer, though wartime paper quality means survivors in sound condition are not taken for granted.