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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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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows a Pyrenean landscape with the snow-capped Sierra del Cadí range in the background; in the foreground, a male agricultural figure holds a sheaf of wheat in one hand and a sickle in the other, evoking the rural economy of the Catalan Alt Urgell comarca. Issuing authority text and redemption deadline inscription are arranged across the lower register. |
| 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 peculiar constitutional position — it is one of the two co-princes of Andorra, alongside the French President, a feudal arrangement that has survived intact to the present day. That context made its municipal wartime scrip politically charged in ways that other Catalan emergency issues were not. During the Civil War, the Republican zone faced an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage, prompting hundreds of Catalan municipalities to issue their own paper fractional currency under a framework loosely sanctioned by the Generalitat.
Turró 2371 places this among the documented Seu d'Urgell issues, though survival rates for small-denomination municipal scrip from the Aragonese front zone are generally poor.