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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 lettering | Ajuntament de SOLSONA 50 CENTIMS Creat i garantit per acord Municipal del 19. de Agost del 1937 Solsona, 1. Setbr. del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Solsona 50 Centimos Created and guaranteed by Municipal agreement of August 19, 1937 Solsona, September 1, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress in black on white paper, centred on a vignette of the main entrance to the city of Solsona as seen from the road toward Manresa, with the bell tower of the Cathedral rising in the background; a single ear of wheat appears on each side of the central view. A plain text block below the vignette carries the denomination in Catalan together with the mandatory circulation notice and the reimbursement deadline. The reverse continues the same unadorned typographic treatment as the obverse, consistent with the emergency character of the issue. |
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Solsona is a small cathedral city in the Lleida province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian municipalities during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento resorted to issuing its own fractional paper currency after the Republic's silver and copper coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply not reaching rural and semi-rural areas. These local emergency issues, known collectively as papel moneda local or moneda de necessitat in Catalan, were technically illegal under central Republican monetary law but tolerated out of sheer practical necessity.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for these Spanish municipal issues, and 2389 places this firmly within the documented Solsona emission. Imprenta Litografia Sabadell y Cia. handled a significant volume of such work for Catalan municipalities throughout 1937.