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50 Céntimos Torrelles de Llobregat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torrelles de Llobregat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Green underprint of geometric designs frames the note, with brown letterpress text throughout. At left, a circular vignette bears the municipal emblem — a tower surrounded by olive branches. The face value and issuing authority are stated in Catalan, along with the date and a legal tender clause for the municipality. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE TORRELLES DE LLOBREGAT CINQUANTA CENTIMS REINTEGRABLE A LA CAIXA MUNICIPAL Torrelles de Llobregat - 10 Maig 1937 50 CENTIMS De curs obligatori per tot el terme (Translation: City Council of Torrelles de Llobregat Fifty Centimos refundable at the Municipal Treasury Torrelles de Llobregat, May 10, 1937 50 Centimos Of mandatory course for all the term.) |
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Torrelles de Llobregat is a small municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, southwest of Barcelona, with a population in the late 1930s of well under a thousand. That it issued its own emergency fractional currency at all speaks directly to the collapse of small-denomination coinage during the early Republican war effort — the peseta coinage system effectively seized up in 1936 as metal was hoarded and Republican authorities struggled to maintain supply through conventional channels. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities filled the gap with locally printed paper, and Piulats in Barcelona handled the printing contracts for a significant number of them.