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50 Céntimos Noves de Segre
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Noves de Segre (Municipality of Noves de Segre) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in brown ink with a ruled perimeter border enclosing a central vignette of a bare-chested male worker gripping a mallet and leaning against the coat of arms of Catalonia. The face value appears in the upper left corner, with the full municipal authority text and redemption clause distributed across the note in multiple typeset lines. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in brown ink, the design presents a symmetrical architectural portico framing the central text area, with garland ornaments along the top and sides. A central circle bearing the face value is flanked on either side by cornucopias overflowing with fruit. The legal tender clause and denomination appear in typeset lettering within the framed field. |
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Noves de Segre is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when Republican Spain's coin supply effectively collapsed after 1936. The hoarding of copper and silver — driven by wartime uncertainty — left small transactions impossible, forcing local councils to print their own emergency scrip under a decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya that authorized such issues.
The printer, C.A.M., handled a significant volume of these municipal issues out of Barcelona. Turró catalogues this as #1659, placing it within a well-documented but enormous body of Catalan Civil War locals, most of which circulated for less than two years before becoming worthless after Franco's forces consolidated control of the region in early 1939.