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50 Céntimos Pineda de Segarra
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pineda de Segarra |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | PINEDA DE SEGARRA LA DEPOSITARIA DE L`AJUNTAMENT PAGARA AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE CINQUANTA CENTIMS ACORD DEL 2 D`AGOST 1937 50 CENTIMS (Translation: Pineda de Segarra The depositary of the City Council will pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Agreement of August 2, 1937 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green with a ruled perimeter border matching the obverse, the reverse presents a vignette of a local landscape with a pine forest, a visual reference to the municipality's name. The denomination appears in numeral form within the composition, the whole executed in a simple letterpress style typical of Catalan wartime emergency currency. |
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Pineda de Segarra is a small municipality in the Anoia comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of comparable villages during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues precisely because the hoarding and melting of copper and silver coins had created a near-total shortage of small change.
Grafos, operating under collective management after its workers seized the Barcelona printing house in 1936, handled a substantial proportion of these local Catalan issues. Turró catalogs this note as #1828 — a reference that places it among the more obscure single-issue village pieces from the series.