Catalog
50 Céntimos Verges
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Verges |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Ocher background with overall floral underprint in brown, the Catalan coat of arms positioned to the left. Text arranged in multiple lines across the centre and lower portion of the note, rendered in brown letterpress. The layout is characteristic of Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | Ocher background with a plain perimeter frame in brown. A vignette at centre presents a partial townscape of Verges with two towers and a section of the medieval town walls visible. Inscriptions in brown letterpress occupy the upper and lower registers. |
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Verges is a small municipality in the Baix Empordà comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its local government issued emergency fractional currency after the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal and corporate emergency issues from 1936 onward, which produced an enormous variety of locally printed pieces — Turró catalogs over 3,000 distinct types from this period alone.
Issues from villages as small as Verges were printed in very limited quantities and rarely traveled far. Survivors tend to show heavy use or, conversely, turn up uncirculated from unissued remainders.