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50 Céntimos Terrassola i Lavit
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Terrassola i Lavit |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 96 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on plain paper, with a floral border framing the entire note. A central vignette presents a seated peasant woman holding a bundle of wheat and a sickle in her right hand, evoking the agricultural character of the municipality. Inscriptions in Catalan appear above and below the vignette, stating the issuing authority, the nominal value, and the mandatory local circulation clause. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in red, with the face value numeral and denomination legend set within a central oval cartouche, flanked on either side by symmetrical geometric ornamental panels. |
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Terrassola i Lavit is a tiny municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca, and like hundreds of similarly small Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change shortage made copper coinage effectively unavailable. The printer, Arts Gràfiques Benaiges — operating under collective management as Impremta Col·lectiva following the anarcho-syndicalist collectivizations of July 1936 — was based in nearby Sant Sadurní d'Anoia and handled notes for several local ayuntamientos in the region.
Turró catalogs this as #2460. The issuing population at the time was well under a thousand.