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50 Céntimos Susqueda

Issuer Ajuntament de Susqueda
Year 1937
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Size 101 × 67 mm
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Obverse lettering AJUNTAMENT DE SUSQUEDA 50 cèntims Aquest VAL serà reintegrat a la seva presentació per moneda nacional.
(Translation: City Council of Susqueda 50 Centimos This Voucher will be reimbursed upon presentation in national currency.)
Reverse description The face value of 50 céntims appears in red within a circular vignette at centre. A photographic-style panoramic view of the locality occupies the remainder of the note, with the historic stone bridge spanning the River Ter visible in the foreground.
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Susqueda was a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when metallic coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. These hyper-local emergency notes — often called "moneda local" or "bitllets de necessitat" — were authorised under Republican decree and produced in enormous variety, with quality ranging from professional lithography to hand-stamped cardboard. Susqueda's falls toward the modest end of that spectrum.

The town itself no longer exists. It was submerged in 1962 when the Susqueda reservoir was completed, displacing the entire population. Notes from the municipality are consequently among the more sought-after Civil War locals — not for rarity alone, but because the issuing authority was literally erased from the map.