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50 Céntimos Sitges
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sitges (Municipality of Sitges) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CTS. AJUNTAMENT DE SITGES El Consell Municipal garantitza al portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS de pesseta Sitges, 1er de juny de 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Sitges City Council The Municipal Council guarantees the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos of Peseta Sitges, June 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMS PAPER PER A CIRCULAR LLIUREMENT PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL DE SITGES (Translation: 50 Centimos Banknote to circulate freely throughout the Municipality of Sitges) |
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One of thousands of small-denomination emergency notes — billetes de necesidad — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after Republican authorities failed to maintain adequate small change in circulation. The silver and copper coinage that should have filled this gap had been hoarded almost entirely out of existence by early 1937, forcing town councils across Catalonia to improvise their own paper currency, typically valid only within their own municipal boundaries.
Seix i Barral was primarily a book publisher, not a security printer. Their involvement here reflects how thoroughly normal commercial operations had been reorganized under wartime collectivization in Barcelona.