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50 Céntimos Subirats
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Subirats (Municipality of Subirats) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in brown, with the face value expressed numerically within a central circle, surrounded by decorative ribbon motifs and geometric guilloche-style border elements. The layout is simple and functional, consistent with the emergency scrip character of the issue. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE SUBIRATS 0`50 CENTIMS (Translation: City Council of Subirats 0.50 Centimos) |
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Subirats is a small wine-producing municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money when Republican authorities could not supply enough small-change coinage. The Consell Municipal authorized these notes under the broader framework of Republican decree, which permitted local governments to fill the coin vacuum that metal hoarding and wartime disruption had created almost immediately after July 1936.
Printed by Arts Gràfiques Benaiges — operating at the time as the Impremta Col·lectiva, reflecting the collectivization of industry in the Republican zone — just down the road in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, the note is a local product in every sense.