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50 Céntimos Rodonyà
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rodonyà (Municipality of Rodonyà) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 80 × 54 mm |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on a light orange underprint of interlaced circles enclosed within a perimeter frame. The text sets out the issuing authority, the promise to pay the bearer, and the denomination in Catalan, arranged in a structured typographic layout. The date of issue, Maig del 1937 (May 1937), appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de Rodonyà PAGARA AL PORTADOR CINQUANTA Cèntims MAIG DEL 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Rodonyà Will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos May 1937) |
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Rodonyà is a tiny municipality in the Baix Penedès comarca of Tarragona — during the Spanish Civil War its population numbered only a few hundred — yet like hundreds of similarly small Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The central government and the Generalitat de Catalunya both attempted to address the coin shortage, but local ajuntaments filled the gap faster and more practically.
Barnadas, based in nearby El Vendrell, printed emergency notes for multiple municipalities across the Baix Penedès during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance between several small-town issues from the comarca.