Catalog
50 Céntimos Roses
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Roses |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2211 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress text and a rectangular perimeter frame with an irregular stippled dot underprint in light blue, with the municipal coat of arms of Roses printed in light blue at centre. The issuing authority name and denomination are set within the framed field, with corner ornaments reinforcing the border design. |
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| Reverse description | Blue stippled dot underprint forming a central rectangular panel framed by an interlocking border with solid blue corner squares and diagonal corner brackets. The denomination value "0'50" appears in blue within four peripheral squares, while the issuer name and bearer promise are printed in bold black letterpress text within the central field. |
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Roses is a small coastal municipality in the Alt Empordà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued its own emergency paper money when coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local bodies to produce these sèries de guerra notes, but design, printing, and quality varied enormously from one municipality to the next.
Turró catalogs this as a single known type for Roses at the 50 céntimos denomination. The paper stock on surviving examples tends to be thin and brittle — a characteristic of the improvised local print runs common to smaller Alt Empordà issues.