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| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Prats de Lluçanès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE PRATS DE LLUÇANES 50 CÈNTIMS PRATS DE LLUÇANES 10 MAIG DEL 1937 L'INTERVENTOR EL PRESIDENT DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE PRATS DE LLUÇANES (Translation: Municipal Council of Prats de Lluçanes 50 Centims Prats de Lluçanes May 10, 1937 The Interventor The President Of mandatory currency throughout the Municipal Territory of Prats de Lluçanes) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a letterpress vignette of a traditional Catalan masia (rural farmhouse) set against an open landscape with farm animals in the foreground, all printed in red on cream paper. The composition is enclosed within the same scalloped guilloche border used on the obverse, maintaining visual consistency across both sides. The denomination is stated in large bold type at the centre. |
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Prats de Lluçanès is a small market town in the Osona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to supply small change pushed this responsibility — and the printing costs — onto local councils with neither the infrastructure nor the expertise for monetary administration. C.A.M. in Barcelona handled the technical side for many of these commissions simultaneously, which is why notes from otherwise unrelated towns share typographic conventions.