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50 Céntimos Súria
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Súria (Municipality of Súria) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Avant, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress text on plain ground with a rectangular guilloche border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Súria is positioned to the left, with the full text of the emergency issue ordinance occupying the central and right portions of the note. All inscriptions are in Catalan. |
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| Reverse description | Pink guilloche underprint with a green wavy-line guilloche border surrounding the entire field. A large circular vignette at left carries the numeral face value '0'50' in dark green on a pink ground within a decorative ring. To the right, the voucher legend is set in green letterpress capitals, and the serial number appears in brown at lower left. |
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Súria is a small mining town in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, built around potash extraction. During the Spanish Civil War, with the Republican zone experiencing acute coin shortages — silver and copper hoarded or melted down, central supply erratic — hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own small-denomination paper emergency money. These notes, generically called "moneda de paper local," were authorized under a 1937 decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, which gave legal standing to issues already proliferating by necessity.
Imprenta Avant was a Barcelona cooperative press with anarcho-syndicalist ties, and printed a significant number of these municipal emergency issues during the war years.