Catalog
50 Céntimos Sils
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sils (Municipality of Sils) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The face of this wartime emergency voucher is printed in blue ink on a yellow dot underprint, with the text arranged in a structured layout within a geometric border running along the perimeter. The central inscriptions state the issuing authority, the authorizing session date, and the validated denomination of 50 céntims. The overall design is typographic in character, without pictorial vignettes, relying entirely on lettering and the framing rule for visual structure. |
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| Reverse lettering | L`Ajuntament entregarà l`import del present val en moneda legal, al presentador del mateix. (Translation: The City Council will deliver the amount of this voucher in legal currency to the person presenting it.) |
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Sils is a small municipality in the comarca of La Selva, Girona. This note was issued under the emergency paper money decree of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1937, which authorized Catalan municipalities to produce their own fractional currency — the bitllets locals — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage during the Civil War. Hundreds of municipalities did so, and quality varied wildly depending on local printing resources.
Turró catalogues this as #2378, placing it well into the documented range of these local emissions. Sils being a minor rural town, surviving examples are genuinely scarce.