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50 Céntimos Saldes
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Saldes (Municipality of Saldes) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a rectangular ornamental border enclosing a central vignette of a forested landscape with the distinctive silhouette of the Pedraforca mountain in the background. Legends and legal tender text are arranged within the framing in Catalan, with the municipality name at the top and the authorising agreement date below the central scene. The overall design is executed in a single brown tone with simple decorative rule borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SALDES 50 CENTIMS De curs legal i obligatori dintra del Municipi segons acord del 10 Juny 1937 A canviar a la Caixa Municipal a la seva presentació (Translation: City Council of Saldes 50 Centimos Of legal and mandatory course within the Municipality according to the agreement of June 10, 1937 To be exchanged at the Municipal Caixa upon presentation) |
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Saldes is a tiny mountain municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, population well under a thousand even today. During the Civil War, the Republican government authorized local bodies across Catalonia to issue emergency small-denomination paper — the coinage shortage after July 1936 was acute enough that villages with no plausible monetary infrastructure were suddenly printing their own currency. Turró catalogues hundreds of these municipal emissions, and Saldes is among the more obscure issuers.
Survival rates for these Catalan municipals vary wildly. Notes from tiny inland villages were printed in small quantities, often on whatever paper was available, and few were formally redeemed or archived.