Catalog
50 Céntimos Palamós
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palamós (Municipality of Palamós) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 99 × 62 mm |
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| Reverse description | A standing female allegorical figure holds a cogwheel, set against a background that evokes the dual economic identity of Palamós: industrial factory buildings with smoking chimneys to one side and a sea view with a moored vessel at the port to the other. The denomination and authorization text appear in Catalan. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT PALAMOS VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement en tot el terme municipal de Palamós. 0`50 (Translation: City Council Palamós Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the municipal term of Palamós.) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal paper issues produced across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War, when the collapse of small-denomination metallic coinage created a practical crisis for everyday commerce. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local councils to print their own fractional currency — Palamós, a fishing port on the Costa Brava, did exactly that alongside dozens of other towns of comparable or smaller size.
Turró's catalog of these Catalan wartime emissions runs to thousands of entries, which gives some sense of how fragmented the system became. Most issues were redeemed or simply abandoned by 1939, and survival rates vary sharply by municipality.