50 Céntimos Gironella

Obverse

Face value in double circle, legend with perimeter border

Script: Latin

Lettering:
0'50
Consell Municipal de Gironella
Val de cinquanta cèntims
emès per aquest Consell per tal de facilitar el canvi i reemborsable a la seva Caixa
Acord del dia 7 de maig del 1937

Translation:
Municipal Council of Gironella
Voucher for Fifty Centimos
issued by this Council in order to facilitate the change and refundable in his "Caixa"
Agreement of May 7, 1937

Reverse

Face value in double circle, legend with perimeter border

Script: Latin

Lettering:
0'50
VAL ÚNIC AUTORITZAT DINS D'AQUEST TERME MUNICIPAL

Translation: Only valid voucher authorized within this municipal term

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Comments

Local Spanish Civil War banknotes: Created by municipalities, cooperatives, unions and other organizations due to the scarcity of fiduciary currency in small purchases and exchanges during the Spanish Civil War.

Municipality: Gironella - Province: Barcelona - Autonomous community: Catalonia

NOTE: Two issues of 1 Peseta, 50 Centimos and 25 Centimos banknotes were made with the same date printed (May 7, 1937). In all of them the design remained unchanged, with the only difference in Serial number and color.

1st ISSUE: (May 7, 1937) 50 Centimos, Turró#1125, Serial number from 00001 to 10000 . Darker tone of color. (Image below from Filatelia Monge website)


2nd ISSUE: (May 7, 1937, but made on September 10, 1937) 50 Centimos, Turró#1128, Serial number from 10001 to 20000 . Lighter and more vivid color tone. (Image of this page)

See also

• 25 Céntimos (Gironella)
• 1 Peseta (Gironella)

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC	References
Undetermined
1937-May-07			10 000								Turró# 1125 Antoni Turró i Martínez; 2007. Les Emissions Monetàries oficials de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939): I: Andorra, Illes Balears i Catalunya (Generalitat i Locals) = The official Monetary Issues of the Civil War (1936-1939). Societat Catalana d'Estudis Numismàtics, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain.	1st Issue (See comments)
1937-May-07			10 000								Turró# 1128 Antoni Turró i Martínez; 2007. Les Emissions Monetàries oficials de la Guerra Civil (1936-1939): I: Andorra, Illes Balears i Catalunya (Generalitat i Locals) = The official Monetary Issues of the Civil War (1936-1939). Societat Catalana d'Estudis Numismàtics, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain.	2nd Issue (See comments)

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