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50 Céntimos Sasserra de Bages
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sasserra (Bages) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SASSERRA (BAGES) Val per 50 CÈNTIMS QUE GARANTITZA LA CAIXA COMUNAL D'AQUEST POBLE. 18 JUNY 1937 (Translation: City Council of Sasserra (Bages) Valid for 50 Centimos Guaranteed by the Caixa Comunal of this town June 18, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Unadorned cream field centred on the local municipal coat of arms, rendered in red and blue: a crowned heraldic shield with vertical red and yellow stripes in the upper half and horizontal red and white divisions below, flanked by symmetrical blue scrollwork cartouche. The denomination '50 CTS' is printed in large red letterpress to both the left and right of the central vignette. |
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Sasserra is a municipality of fewer than 200 inhabitants in the comarca of Bages, making this one of the smallest issuing authorities in the entire Spanish Civil War emergency coinage program. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized Catalan municipalities to issue their own small-change notes — *moneda local* — from 1936 onward to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation, hoarded or melted almost immediately after the July uprising.
Notes from villages this small were issued in tiny quantities and circulated within a radius of a few kilometers at most. Survivors are genuinely scarce — not because they were well-preserved, but because so few were printed in the first place.