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50 Céntimos Palafolls
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafolls (Municipality of Palafolls) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress text on a gray stippled and striped underprint. The municipal coat of arms of Palafolls is positioned at the upper left, with the issuing authority's name and full legal text arranged across the face. The face value "50 CTS" appears in bold at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Palafolls Val per 50 cèntims quantitat reembolsable a la Caixa Municipal, en virtut d'acord del Ajuntament, de data 29 de Maig del 1937 50 CTS (Translation: City Council of Palafolls Valid for 50 Centimos amount refundable to the Municipal Fund, by agreement of the City Council, dated May 29, 1937 50 Centimos) |
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Palafolls is a small municipality in the Maresme comarca of Catalonia, and this note is exactly the kind of hyper-local emergency scrip that proliferated across Republican-held Spain after the military uprising of July 1936 drained coins from everyday commerce almost overnight. With metallic currency hoarded or simply unavailable, hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments commissioned their own fractional paper — often from whatever local printer happened to be nearby. In this case, Imprenta Montalt in the neighboring town of Malgrat handled the job.
Turró catalogues over two thousand such municipal issues; the sheer number of them is precisely why individual pieces remain affordable despite their scarcity in absolute terms.