Catalog
50 Céntimos Urtx
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Urtx |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 105 × 62 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in brown by letterpress, with the issuer name underlined at centre and a single-line rectangular border framing the entire face. The denomination and bond terms are set in varying type sizes, with the maturity date of 31 December 1937 stated in full. |
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| Reverse description | Cream stock printed in brown by letterpress, with the issue date centred at top and a bold mandatory-circulation legend across the middle. Four dot-matrix ornamental devices arranged symmetrically above and below the central text serve as decorative fillers. To the left, a violet oval official municipality stamp bearing a heraldic shield is applied by hand. |
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Urtx is a hamlet in the Cerdanya comarca of Catalonia — a place small enough that its wartime emergency scrip stands among the most obscure municipal issues of the Spanish Civil War. The Republican government's inability to maintain adequate coin supply in 1937 pushed even the most remote villages to print their own low-denomination paper, a situation that produced thousands of distinct local issues across Catalonia alone.
Turró catalogues this as #2625, which places it deep in the long tail of Catalan municipal emissions. The thick card stock construction was typical of villages without access to proper banknote paper — functional, not decorative.