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50 Céntimos Manlleu
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Manlleu |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Centre d'Administració Municipal (C.A.M.), Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The left side of the note is occupied by a heraldic vignette of the Manlleu coat of arms — a shield charged with an open hand, flanked by olive branches — set within a decorative surround with a circular guilloche medallion below. The large denomination numeral '50 CÈNTIMS' is printed in bold letterpress to the right of the arms, below the issuer name in large capitals, with a cursive-script redemption clause and three manuscript signatures beneath, attributed to the Secretary, Cashier, and President of the Municipal Council. The entire design is printed in red on white paper, with a foliate guilloche border running the perimeter and a denomination shield cartouche at the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL MANLLEU 50 CÈNTIMS CENTRO ADMON MPAL. EMP. COL BARCELONA CASANOVA 55, 57 (Translation: Municipal Council Manlleu 50 Centimos Centro Administración Municipal Empresa Colectiva Barcelona Casanova 55, 57) |
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Manlleu is a textile town on the Ter river in Osona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally sanctioned notes — called moneda municipal or bitllets locals — were a direct response to a nationwide hoarding crisis: silver and copper coinage vanished almost immediately after July 1936, making small transactions nearly impossible.
The Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona served as a centralized production facility for many of these issues, which is why notes from otherwise unrelated towns sometimes share obvious typographic and layout similarities. Turró's catalog documents over a thousand such issues from the 1936–1939 period, and this 50 céntimos sits within that larger body of wartime fiscal improvisation.