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50 Céntimos Sant Martí del Bas
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sant Martí del Bas |
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| Size | 62 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer name appears in bold uppercase letters at the top, separated from the body text by a double horizontal rule; a serial number field appears at centre, overlaid by an oval municipal stamp in violet ink. The denomination 'VAL 50 cèntims' is set in large bold type at centre, with the mandatory circulation clause in smaller text enclosed within a ruled border at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE S. MARTÍ DEL BAS VAL 50 cèntims CURS OBLIGATORI L'intent de pertorbació de circulació del present VAL serà sancionat severament. (Translation: City Council of Sant Martí del Bas It's worth 50 Centims Mandatory currency The attempt to disrupt the circulation of this Voucher will be severely penalized.) |
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Sant Martí del Bas is a small village in the Garrotxa region of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities in 1936–37, its ajuntament issued emergency small-change notes when the Republic's copper and nickel coinage vanished almost overnight at the start of the Civil War. These local emissions — collectible today under the broad "Guerra Civil" category — were produced under genuinely improvised conditions, often on whatever card stock or heavy paper the municipality had to hand, which accounts for the substrate variation seen across surviving examples.
Turró 2278 is among the more obscure municipal issues; the village's population was tiny, production runs were correspondingly small, and few examples entered collector circulation before the Franco-era suppression of Republican material.