Catalog
50 Céntimos Poble del Llierca
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Poble del Llierca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta C. Barnés, Palamós, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE POBLE DEL LLIERCA CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Poble del Llierca, 1er d`Octubre del 1937 50 cts. Emissió del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Poble del Llierca Fifty Centimos Poble del Llierca, October 1, 1937 50 Centimos Issue 1937) |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress text within a simple linear border frame. A vignette in the central field presents a partial view of the local landscape with the dam on the Fluvià river visible in the background. Redemption and authorization inscriptions are arranged around the vignette, referencing the municipal council resolution of 21 September 1937. |
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Poble del Llierca is a tiny municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona province — a village of a few hundred people issuing its own emergency paper money in the second year of the Civil War. These hyper-local Catalan wartime notes, collectively catalogued under the *bitllets de necessitat* framework, emerged because the Republican government's coin supply had collapsed almost entirely; people were hoarding metal, and small-change transactions had become genuinely impossible.
Imprenta C. Barnés of Palamós handled production for numerous Catalan municipal issues during this period, which means the printing quality here is more consistent than many village-level notes from the same emergency wave.