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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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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark red on cream paper with an overall dense guilloche arabesque underprint covering the entire face. An oval municipal stamp vignette appears at the left, enclosing the local coat of arms with vertical bars below a tower, surrounded by the circular legend of the town council. To the right, the mandatory currency text is set in bold letterpress over the guilloche background, with the large numeral "50" in the lower-right corner and the series designation "SERIE A" at the lower centre. |
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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.