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50 Céntimos Solsona
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Solsona (Municipality of Solsona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on white paper, centred on the municipal coat of arms of Solsona surmounted by the Catalan rhomboid emblem in colour; flanking vignettes of ears of wheat to the left and coal workers to the right evoke the local agricultural and craft trades. Inscriptions in Catalan above and below the central arms state the issuing authority and denomination, with the authorising municipal decree date of 25 November 1937 and issue date of 1 December 1937. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de SOLSONA 50 CENTIMS Creat i garantit per acord Municipal del 25. de Nbre. del 1937 Solsona, 1. Dbre. del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Solsona 50 Centimos Created and guaranteed by Municipal agreement of November 25, 1937 Solsona, December 1, 1937) |
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Solsona is a small cathedral city in Lleida province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued fractional emergency currency in 1937 to compensate for the catastrophic shortage of Republican coinage — silver and copper having largely disappeared from circulation through hoarding and requisition. These local issues, known collectively as moneda municipal de necessitat, were authorized under Generalitat decree and varied wildly in quality and design ambition from one town to the next.
The printer, Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia., produced municipal emergency notes for multiple Catalan localities during this period, which occasionally creates attribution headaches for notes where the issuing stamp is unclear.