Catalog
50 Céntimos Puigcerdà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Puigcerdà (Municipality of Puigcerdà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper right corner bears the Catalan coat of arms with its distinctive four red bars on gold ground. The central vignette presents a pastoral Pyrenean landscape with a herd of cattle grazing on an alpine meadow, evoking the agricultural and livestock wealth of the Cerdanya region. The obligatory text block in Catalan occupies the lower portion of the note, with the denomination numeral '50' clearly stated. |
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| Obverse lettering | L'AJUNTAMENT DE PUIGCERDÀ Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de cinquanta Cèntims Puigcerdà, juny 1937. 50 (Translation: The City Council of Puigcerdà Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Puigcerdà, June 1937) |
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Puigcerdà is a Catalan enclave town sitting inside a loop of French territory on the Cerdanya plateau — geographically isolated enough that during the Civil War its municipal government issued its own emergency fractional currency when small change effectively disappeared from circulation. Hundreds of Spanish municipalities did the same between 1936 and 1938, but Puigcerdà's position near the French border gave it an unusual economic character, with cross-border movement of people and goods complicating any local scrip's practical utility.
El Secretariat Català printed emergency notes for numerous Republican-controlled municipalities during this period, making Turró's catalog the essential reference for untangling which town issued what.