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50 Céntimos Sunyer
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sunyer (Municipality of Sunyer) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Handwritten emergency note executed in black ink with face value inscriptions rendered in red ink. The text, written in Catalan, constitutes the entirety of the design, serving as both the declaration of value and the instrument of obligation. An oval municipal stamp is applied to authenticate the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de Sunyer pagarà al portador cinquanta cèntims de pesseta Val 50 cts. (Translation: The City Council of Sunyer will pay the bearer Fifty Centimos of Peseta It`s worth 50 Centimos) |
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Sunyer is a tiny municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's Decree of 24 August 1937 attempted to regularize — but could not fully control — the torrent of locally printed emergency money. The sole security feature, a municipal stamp impression, was the norm for these issues: the town had neither the means nor the time for anything more.
Turró catalogues over 2,800 distinct municipal emissions from this period. Sunyer's single known value makes it one of the more minimal issuers on record.