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50 Céntimos Llevantí de Mar
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Llevantí de Mar (Municipality of Llevantí de Mar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta C. Barnés, Palamós, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LLEVANTI DE MAR Moneda paper de curs local obligatori 50 SERIE A (Translation: City Council of Llevantí de Mar - Mandatory local paper currency 50 - Series A) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 cts. LLEVANTI DE MAR NOVEMBRE 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos - Llevantí de Mar - November 1937) |
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Llevantí de Mar is a small coastal municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed emergency paper during the Civil War after metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning small-change supply forced municipal councils — many with no banking infrastructure whatsoever — to commission whatever printer was available.
Imprenta C. Barnés in nearby Palamós handled several of these local issues for the surrounding comarca. The Turró catalogue, the standard reference for Catalan Civil War emergency currency, assigns this note a relatively high reference number, placing it among the later and more obscure municipal emissions of the conflict.