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50 Céntimos Pinedes del Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pinedes del Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 57 mm |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ground letterpress note with a brownish-red double-rule rectangular border enclosing the entire field. The municipal coat of arms appears to the left, with the issuing authority's name and statutory promise-to-pay legend arranged in plain typographic blocks across the remaining area. The overall composition is spare and utilitarian, characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency scrip. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT - PINEDES DEL LLOBREGAT pagarà al portador la quantitat de 50 cèntims segons acord del 22 de maig del 1937. Pinedes del Llobregat, el 25 de maig del 1937 De curs local obligatori. (Translation: City Council - Pinedes del Llobregat will pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos according to agreement of May 22, 1937. Pinedes del Llobregat, May 25, 1937. Of mandatory local course.) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known in Catalonia as *moneda de necessitat* — issued by municipal governments during the Civil War after the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage. Pinedes del Llobregat, a small coastal municipality south of Barcelona, authorized this 50 céntimos note through its ajuntament under the broader framework that the Generalitat de Catalunya formalized in 1937, permitting local authorities to cover the gap left by hoarded or melted metallic currency.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català handled a substantial volume of these municipal issues out of Barcelona, which is why Turró catalogues so many notes from geographically scattered towns sharing near-identical production characteristics.