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50 Céntimos Perafita
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Perafita |
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| Size | 80 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text and rectangular perimeter frame on a greenish-blue floral underprint. The municipal coat of arms appears as a vignette in the upper left corner. The note text is set in a plain typeface typical of Civil War-era Spanish emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PERAFITA RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE 50 CENTIMS Aquest bitllet és de curs legal per aquest terme municipal. (Translation: Municipal Council of Perafita Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of 50 Centimos This banknote is legal tender for this municipality.) |
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Perafita is a small municipality in the comarca of Osona, Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree authorizing local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to address the chronic shortage of coin in circulation from mid-1936 onward. Imprenta Anglada in nearby Vic served as the practical printer of choice for much of Osona's municipal paper, producing runs for numerous councils in the region.
Turró catalogues over 2,000 distinct Spanish Civil War local issues; Perafita's entry at #1804 places it well into the long tail of minor municipal emitters whose total print runs were often in the hundreds rather than thousands.