Catalog
50 Céntimos Pals
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pals (Municipality of Pals) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Typeset note printed in dark brown on a pale yellow dotted underprint, with a wide decorative border composed of concentric circle motifs and stippled bands. The denomination '0'50' is set in bold at both the upper and lower centre panels, framing a central text block carrying the authorisation legend in Catalan. The printer's imprint 'IMP. PALÉ' appears in small capitals at the foot of the note. |
| 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.