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50 Céntimos Maçanet de la Selva
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Maçanet de la Selva |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a fine ornamental guilloche border. The municipal name appears in large letterpress script across the top, with the denomination 'VAL PER 50 CTS.' in bold central text below. An oval vignette of the local coat of arms is positioned to the upper right, and three signature lines — L'Alcalde, El Secretari Interventor, and El Caixer — appear at the foot, with a large underprint numeral '50' to the left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Maçanet de la Selva VAL PER 50 CTS. Reintegrable en la Caixa Municipal en virtut d'acord de l'Ajuntament en data 19 de Maig de 1937. L'Alcalde El Secretari Interventor El Caixer (Translation: City Council of Maçanet de la Selva Valid for 50 Centimos. Refundable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of the City Council dated 19 May 1937. The Mayor, The Interventor Secretary, The Cashier.) |
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Maçanet de la Selva is a small municipality in the Girona province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's small coinage effectively vanished from circulation in the early months of the Civil War. These local issues — collectively catalogued under the broader "Guerra Civil" municipal series — were authorized under a decree that allowed ayuntamientos to print their own change-substitute notes, with no central oversight of design or quality.
Turró 1390 is among the more obscure Girona provincial entries. Production volumes for towns of this size were typically in the low thousands, and survival rates are correspondingly poor.