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50 Céntimos Pont de Suert
| Issuer | Comisión Gestora de Pont de Suert |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Size | 107 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain ochre-toned paper note printed entirely in dark blue letterpress type on an unadorned ground, with double horizontal ruled lines forming a simple border at top and bottom. The issuing authority appears in large capitals across the top register, followed by the denomination in mixed type sizes centred on the note. The place of issue, date, and Nationalist era designation are set in two columns along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMISION GESTORA DE Pont de Suert Vale por CINCUENTA céntimos A CANJEAR CON MONEDA AUTORIZADA POR EL GOBIERNO NACIONAL DE BURGOS Pont de Suert 15 Abril 1938. II año Triunfal (Translation: Management Commission of Pont de Suert Voucher for Fifty Centimos To be exchanged with currency authorized by the National Government of Burgos Pont de Suert April 15, 1938. 2nd Triumphal year) |
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Pont de Suert is a small municipality in the Alta Ribagorça comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War under Republican authority. The Comisión Gestora — essentially the municipal governing committee — produced these locally because the acute shortage of coin made everyday commerce nearly impossible. Denominations like this 50 céntimos piece filled the gap left by hoarded metal.
Turró catalogues these Catalan municipal emissions exhaustively, and the Pont de Suert issues are among the more obscure entries — the town's small population means surviving quantities are genuinely limited.