Catalog
50 Céntimos Palafrugell
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palafrugell (Municipality of Palafrugell) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PALAFRUGELL Val per cinquanta cts. quantitat reemborsable a la caixa de la Dipositaria municipal, en virtud d'acord de l'Ajuntament de data 26 de gener del 1937. Palafrugell, febrer del 1937. L'Alcalde, El Secretari-Interventor, El Dipositari Serie A 0'50 (Translation: City Council of Palafrugell. Valid for fifty centimes, amount refundable at the cashier of the Municipal Depositary, under an agreement of the City Council dated 26 January 1937. Palafrugell, February 1937. The Mayor, The Secretary-Comptroller, The Depositary. Series A. 0'50) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a geometric border composed of nested rectangular frames and smaller decorative squares at the corners, each corner square carrying the face value '0'50' in red. The central field contains the authorisation text in brown, with the denomination numeral repeated in the corner panels. |
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Palafrugell is a small Catalan coastal municipality, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed almost entirely. These local issues — collectively known as moneda local or paper de guerra — were authorized under a Generalitat de Catalunya decree and were theoretically valid only within the issuing municipality's boundaries. In practice, enforcement was impossible.
Turró catalogued over 1,700 distinct Catalan municipal emissions from this period. That Palafrugell's 50 céntimos falls at #1741 places it toward the very end of that sequence — a minor issuer by volume, with correspondingly limited print runs.