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50 Céntimos Torroella de Montgrí
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Torroella de Montgrí |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in red ink throughout, with an ornamental rectangular border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Torroella de Montgrí appears to the left, accompanied by a multi-line text block in Catalan acknowledging the bearer's entitlement to fifty centims as legal tender within the municipal term. The date of the authorizing council session, 12 November 1937, is recorded at the foot of the text. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`AJUNTAMENT DE TORROELLA DE MONTGRÍ RECONEIX AL PORTADOR CINQUANTA CENTIMS DE CURS OBLIGATORI EN EL TERME MUNICIPAL SESSIÓ 12 NOVEMBRE 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Torroella de Montgrí Recognizes to the bearer Fifty Centims Mandatory course in the Municipal term Session November 12, 1937) |
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Torroella de Montgrí is a small Catalan municipality on the Costa Brava, and like hundreds of other Generalitat-era towns, its ajuntament issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 when Republican Spain's small-change crisis made coins effectively impossible to find. These hyper-local emissions — sometimes covering a single village's market economy — were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya's broader framework permitting municipal bodies to fill the void left by hoarded and requisitioned coinage.
Turró's catalog documents over 2,500 such issues; the numbering alone signals how routine this necessity became across Catalonia before Franco's forces ended the practice entirely.