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50 Céntimos Navarcles
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Navarcles |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE NAVARCLES Val per cinquanta cèntims Segons acord municipal del 27 Agost 1937. 50 (Translation: City Council of Navarcles Valid for Fifty Centimos According to municipal agreement of August 27, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a bare-chested male worker seated upon an anvil and holding a mallet, with fruit arranged at his feet; a tree and an industrial factory with smoking chimneys occupy the background, evoking the dual agricultural and manufacturing identity of the town. The composition is enclosed within a plain ruled border, with the denomination and mandatory circulation legend printed below the vignette. |
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Navarcles is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government had lost effective control over the money supply at the local level, and municipal paper of this kind — technically illegal under central banking statutes — proliferated by sheer necessity.
El Secretariat Català printed a significant volume of these wartime municipal issues out of Barcelona. Turró's catalog documents over two thousand distinct local emissions from this period, and the survival rate for low-denomination notes like this one is poor — they circulated hard and were rarely saved.