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50 Céntimos Sadurní d'Anoia
| Issuer | Sadurní d'Anoia, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0'50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE SADURNÍ D'ANOIA CINQUANTA CENTIMS (ACORD DEL 15 DE JULIOL DEL 1937) Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Sadurní d'Anoia (Translation: Municipal Council of Sadurní d'Anoia Fifty Centimos (Agreement of July 15, 1937) Redeemable at the Municipal Treasury Mandatory course for the entire municipality of Sadurní d'Anoia) |
| Reverse description | Printed in red on white paper, the reverse is dominated by a central hexagonal guilloche panel bearing the denomination numeral '0.50' and the legend 'PESSETES'. Ornate acanthus scroll vignettes flank the central panel on both sides, with matched serial numbers printed in two positions flanking the central design. A floral and geometric border frames the entire composition, with 'SÈRIE A' noted at both lower corners and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Sadurní d'Anoia — better known today as Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, the center of Catalan cava production — was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coin virtually disappeared from circulation in 1936. These locally printed notes, collectively called "moneda local" or "paper moneda," were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya and circulated only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
What distinguishes this note is that it was printed by Arts Gràfiques Benaiges operating as a collectivized print shop — the "Impremta Col·lectiva" designation reflects the anarcho-syndicalist worker takeovers of private businesses that swept Republican Catalonia in the early war years.