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50 Céntimos Pardines
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pardines (Municipality of Pardines) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE PARDINES COMARCA DEL RIPOLLÈS La Caixa Municipal reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Pardines, el 1er de Setembre del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Pardines, Comarca of El Ripollès. The Municipal Treasury recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centims. Pardines, September 1, 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS VALID FINS EL DIA 31 D'AGOST DEL 1938 (Translation: 50 Centims. Valid until August 31, 1938.) |
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Pardines is a tiny Pyrenean municipality in the comarca of Ripollès — population measured in the hundreds even today — which makes its issuance of emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War both remarkable and entirely typical of the Republican zone's fragmented monetary response. When the Republic's central supply of small change collapsed in 1937, thousands of municipalities printed their own. Pardines was among the smallest to do so.
Turró catalogues this as #1782, placing it within the vast documentation of Catalan Civil War locals. Survival rate for notes from settlements this size is unpredictable — low print runs, rough wartime handling, and no formal redemption process.