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50 Céntimos Palau-solità
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Palau-solità |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | L'Ajuntament de Palau-solità pagarà al portadir la quantitat de 50 cèntims segons acord del 27 de juny del 1937 Palau-solità, el 30 de juny del 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Palau-solità will pay to the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos according to agreement of June 27, 1937 Palau-solità, June 30, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | Ajuntament de Palau-solità 50 cts. De curs local obligatori. (Translation: City Council of Palau-solità 50 Centimos Of mandatory local course.) |
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Palau-solità is a small municipality northwest of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. These locally printed "vals" or "bitllets" were authorised under a framework that gave municipal councils latitude to produce what amounted to hyperlocal scrip — legal only within the issuing town's boundaries and redeemable, in theory, once stability returned.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled production for numerous small Catalan municipalities during this period, which gives the printing a consistency that the issuing authorities themselves lacked.