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50 Céntimos Pineda
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pineda (Municipality of Pineda) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta V. Pedemonte, Calella, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CÈNTIMS Ajuntament de Pineda VAL per 50 Cèntims Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal per acord del 20 de Novembre del 1937. De curs obligatori per tot el terme Municipal de Pineda. (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Pineda Valid for 50 Centimos Reintegratable to the Municipal Treasury by agreement of November 20, 1937 Mandatory course for all the Municipal term of Pineda) |
| Reverse description | Pink underprint composed of geometric and floral guilloche patterns, enclosed within a single brown letterpress perimeter frame. The reverse carries a simplified design with the issuing authority name and denomination in brown letterpress text, consistent with the austere production standards of Civil War-era Spanish local emergency currency. |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, when the collapse of normal coin supply forced local governments to print their own fractional currency. The Ajuntament de Pineda's issue was handled locally by Imprenta V. Pedemonte in nearby Calella — a practical choice, since proximity mattered when communication and transport were disrupted by active conflict.
Turró catalogues this as #1825, placing it within a well-documented but still incompletely surveyed series of Catalan wartime locals. Survival rates for these small municipal emissions vary wildly; many were redeemed or simply discarded once the Nationalist takeover of Catalonia in early 1939 rendered them worthless overnight.