Catalog
50 Céntimos Palafrugell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafrugell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1743 |
| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a light ground with the municipal coat of arms serving as an underprint in the background. The face carries the full text of the authorizing resolution, referencing the agreement of 26 January 1937, along with the issuing authority and the denomination of 50 céntims. The overall layout is typographic with minimal decorative framing. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PALAFRUGELL VAL PER CINQUANTA CENTIMS QUANTITAT REEMBORSABLE A LA CAIXA DE LA DIPOSITARIA MUNICIPAL EN VIRTUT D`ACORD DE L`AJUNTAMENT DE DATA 26 DE GENER DEL 1937 Palafrugell Agost del 1937 50 CTS. (Translation: City Council of Palafrugell It is valid for Fifty Centimos amount refundable to the Caixa of the Municipal Depositary, under an agreement of the City Council dated January 26, 1937. Palafrugell, August 1937. 50 Centimos) |
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Palafrugell is a small coastal municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Spanish towns during 1937, its local government issued fractional emergency currency — the "moneda de necessitat" — in response to a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination Republican coinage. The central government in Valencia had effectively lost control of the small-change supply, and municipalities were legally permitted under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree to fill the gap themselves.
Turró's catalogue documents over two thousand distinct local issues from this period. Most were printed by whatever means a town hall had at hand, and survival rates vary enormously by municipality.