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50 Céntimos Tagamanent
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Tagamanent |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Cream-coloured ground enclosed within a geometric border frame printed in dark brown. The face is entirely typographical, with the issuing authority, denomination, and legal text arranged in a structured hierarchical layout in letterpress. No pictorial vignette is present on this side. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TAGAMANENT Es pagarà al portador la quantitat de 50 cènts. Tagamanent, setembre 1937 Bitllet de curs local obligatori Acord Municipal de 28 de Setembre del 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Tagamanent The amount of 50 Centimos will be paid to the bearer Tagamanent, September 1937 Mandatory local currency banknote Municipal agreement of September 28, 1937) |
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Tagamanent is a municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca with a population that hovered around 200 during the 1930s. That a village this small issued its own fractional currency is not an anomaly — under the Republican government's 1937 authorization, hundreds of Catalan municipalities did exactly this to address the acute shortage of small change caused by coin hoarding in the early months of the Civil War. Gràfiques Unificades in Granollers handled a substantial volume of these local emissions across the comarca.
Turró catalogs this as a scarce piece, which is unsurprising given the tiny issuing population and the short window of practical use before the Nationalist advance into Catalonia in 1938–39 rendered all Republican municipal paper worthless.