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50 Céntimos Subirats
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Subirats (Municipality of Subirats) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress design with an ornate floral border framing the entire note. A vignette of a tower above a mound appears at the left, balanced by the denomination text and municipal authority legends arranged centrally. The overall composition is typical of Catalan Civil War-era emergency municipal currency. |
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| 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.