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50 Céntimos Terrassa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Terrassa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 115 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Issued in green letterpress on white paper, the note centres on the municipal coat of arms of Terrassa set within a lightly printed underprint background, flanked symmetrically by ornamental foliate branches. Issuer and denomination legends in Catalan are arranged in letterpress around the central vignette, with the guaranty and reimbursement clause distributed across the field. The date 'maig del 1937' and denomination '50 cts.' appear in the lower portion of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE TERRASSA Val per CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS de pesseta, quantitat reemborsable i garantida amb la reserva que del circulant resta dipositada a la Banca local. Terrassa, maig del 1937. 50 cts. (Translation: Municipal Council of Terrassa It is valid for Fifty Centimos of peseta, an amount refundable and guaranteed with the remaining reserve of the circulating currency deposited in the local Bank. Terrassa, May 1937. 50 Centimos) |
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Terrassa's municipal wartime issues of 1937 sit within a vast ecosystem of local Republican emergency currency — the Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized Catalan municipalities to print their own small-denomination notes to address the chronic shortage of coin that followed the July 1936 uprising. Hundreds of ajuntaments took up that authority, producing issues of wildly uneven quality and quantity.
Turró catalogues Terrassa's series with relatively high reference numbers, suggesting later documentation rather than rarity or obscurity. Survival rates for these municipals vary enormously — many were redeemed or destroyed after Franco's forces took Catalonia in early 1939.