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50 Céntimos Rosselló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Rosselló (Municipality of Rosselló) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Light ocher ground with a dotted rectangular border in brown frames the note. The issuer's name "L'AJUNTAMENT DE ROSSELLÓ (LLEIDA)" is set in bold letterpress across the upper left, flanked by the numeral "50" at top left and a boxed panel to the right bearing "CINQUANTA CENTIMS" in red. A central yellow-gold underprint repeats the municipal name and denomination, over which two manuscript signatures appear above the printed titles "L'Alcalde" and "El Dipositari," with the date "Rosselló, 15 d'Abril del 1937" and two lines of small-type legal text at the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE ROSSELLÓ 50 CENTIMS ANY 1937 AJUNTAMENT CONSTITUCIONAL ROSSELLÓ (Translation: City Council of Rosselló 50 Centims Year 1937 Constitutional City Council of Rosselló) |
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Rosselló is a small municipality in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish Republican towns, it resorted to issuing its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the hoarding of coins created an acute shortage of small change. These local municipal issues — collectively catalogued in Turró's exhaustive reference — were typically produced in very short runs, often on whatever paper stock was locally available, which makes survival rates uneven and condition variable by default.
The Turró number places this squarely within the documented Catalan municipal emission corpus, but Rosselló's issues remain among the more obscure within that group.