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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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| 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. |
| Reverse lettering | Emissió del 1.er de Juliol del 1937 Curs obligatori dins el terme municipal (La cancel·lació haurà d'ésser feta a l'Ajuntament abans del dia deu de gener del 1938) (Translation: Issue of July 1, 1937 Mandatory course within the municipality (The cancellation must be made at the City Council before January 10, 1938)) |
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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.