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50 Céntimos Roses de Llobregat
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Roses de Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Tipografia Centre d'Administració Municipal (C.A.M.), Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | At upper left, a circular vignette encloses a rose bloom; to the left, two children cradle a cornucopia overflowing with roses, while to the right an allegorical vignette of labour presents a bare-chested worker wielding a mallet before a cogwheel and factory silhouettes in the background. Between the two vignettes, the course of the Llobregat river is rendered as a landscape divider, with denomination numerals and municipal inscriptions in Catalan arranged around the central field. |
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| Reverse description | Two workers tend to flower cultivation in the foreground, while at the side a labouring family is grouped alongside emblems of industry — an anvil, mallet and cogwheel. The background carries doves of peace in flight above factory smokestacks and a view of the Llobregat river, the entire composition rendered in a simplified allegorical style characteristic of Catalan municipal emergency issues of the Civil War period. |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes — "moneda de paper local" — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after metallic coin vanished from circulation almost overnight in 1936. The Republican government's inability to supply small change pushed the burden onto local councils, many of which had no printing infrastructure whatsoever and contracted whatever press was available.
Turró catalogues this issue under #2220. The C.A.M. press in Barcelona handled municipal print work for multiple Catalan councils during this period, which means production quality is generally more consistent than notes from improvised local sources.