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50 Centimos Manresa; Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia.
| Issuer | Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia., Manresa |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed voucher in black on plain paper, with a single-rule perimeter border and a yellow underprint logo at centre. The issuer's name and denomination are set in bold typeface, with the serial number printed below the main text block. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0'50 FERRETERIA SOL GERMANS I C.ª MANRESA Val per cinquanta cènts. de pesseta N.º 4358 IMP. RUBIRALTA (Translation: Voucher for Fifty Centimos of peseta) |
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Ferreteria Sol Germans i Cia. was a hardware merchant in Manresa, Catalonia — not a bank, not a municipality, not any kind of financial authority. Like hundreds of commercial and industrial enterprises across Republican-held Spain during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency simply because the official small-change supply had collapsed. The Generalitat and the central Republican government both attempted to address the coin shortage, but neither moved fast enough, and local businesses filled the gap themselves.
These emergency notes — known collectively as "guerra civil locals" — were produced by whatever printer was available. Imprenta Rubiralta was a local Manresa press, and its output for various issuers during this period is documented by Amadeu Llorens in his cataloguing work underpinning the AL reference series.