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50 Céntimos Sallent
| Issuer | Sallent, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 / 50 CTS. El Consell Municipal de SALLENT reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CTS. SALLENT, MAIG DEL 1937 BITLLET DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI (Translation: The Municipal Council of Sallent recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos. Sallent, May 1937. Mandatory local currency banknote.) |
| Reverse description | Printed in black, the reverse presents a landscape vignette offering a partial panorama of Sallent along the Llobregat River, with a dam visible in the foreground and an industrial factory rising behind the medieval Gothic stone bridge dating to the 14th century. Denomination text is placed above and below the central vignette in a plain letterpress arrangement typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues. |
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Sallent is a small industrial town in the Bages comarca, its economy historically tied to the potash mines that made it one of the more economically significant municipalities in inland Catalonia. During the Civil War, the Republican government's decree of May 1937 formalized the already-chaotic reality of local emergency currency — hundreds of Catalan municipalities had been issuing their own paper since 1936 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation.
Viladot in Barcelona handled a substantial portion of these municipal commissions, which accounts for the consistent production quality across otherwise politically and geographically unrelated towns. The Turró catalogue remains the essential reference for untangling this proliferation.