Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Céntimos Roquetes
| Issuer | Roquetes, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on buff card stock, the face is framed by a rectangular border composed of small decorative squares and dashes at the corners and along each side, with the denomination numeral '50' repeated at all four corners. The issuer inscription 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' runs along the top border and 'ROQUETAS' along the bottom. The central field is divided into two panels: the left bearing the spelled-out denomination 'CINCUENTA CENTIMOS' in large bold letterpress, and the right a further numeral '50 CENTIMOS' in large bold type, the right panel itself enclosed within an additional dotted rectangular frame. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL CINCUENTA CENTIMOS / 50 CENTIMOS ROQUETAS (Translation: Municipal Council Fifty Centimos / 50 Centimos Roquetas) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Roquetes is a small municipality in the Baix Ebre comarca of Tarragona, and this 50 céntimos note belongs to the vast wave of local emergency currency — moneda local — that flooded Republican-held Catalonia and the Levant after July 1936. The collapse of small coin circulation following the outbreak of the Civil War forced hundreds of Spanish municipalities, many of them tiny, to print or stamp their own fractional notes. Turró catalogued over two thousand such issues, and this is one of them.
The thick card stock construction was a practical choice — municipalities often lacked access to proper banknote paper and sourced whatever was locally available.