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50 Céntimos Pals
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pals (Municipality of Pals) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in dark brown on a pale yellow dotted underprint, with a double border of interlocking circles running the full perimeter. The denomination '0'50' appears in square cartouches at upper left and upper right, with 'AJUNTAMENT DE PALS' in bold capitals across the upper field, 'VAL PER' above the large blackletter value inscription 'Cinquanta cèntims', and the place and date 'Pals, 25 de Febrer del 1937' centered below. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot, beneath the printed titles 'L'Alcalde', 'El Secretari Interventor', and 'El Dipositari', with the series letter and serial number at top. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0'50 VAL autoritzat per a circular lliurement per tot el territori de Pals, el valor del qual és reembossable a la Caixa de la Dipositaria Municipal, en virtut de l'acord de l'Ajuntament de data 19 de febrer del 1937. IMP. PALÉ (Translation: Voucher authorized to circulate freely throughout the territory of Pals, the value of which is refundable to the Caixa of the Municipal Depositary, by virtue of the agreement of the City Council dated 19 February 1937. IMP. PALÉ) |
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Pals is a small medieval village in the Baix Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities during the Civil War, it was forced to issue its own fractional currency after Republican authorities failed to maintain an adequate supply of small change. The Consell Municipal's solution — commissioning local printer Imprenta Palé in Girona — was entirely typical of the period, but Pals's geographic remoteness and tiny population meant emission quantities were almost certainly very low.
Turró catalogs this as #1776, one of the more obscure Catalan municipal issues. Surviving examples are rarely offered.